Box with Twin Skies with Fleeting Clouds
Original Language Title平成30年 岡田嘉夫作 双天流雲乾漆蒔絵箱
Artist
Okada Yoshio
(Japanese, born 1977)
Date2018
MediumMaki-e kanshitsu dry-lacquer box
DimensionsOverall (storage box): 4 1/2 × 5 × 5 inches (11.43 × 12.7 × 12.7 cm)
Overall (lacquer box): 3 1/4 × 3 1/8 × 3 1/8 inches (8.26 × 7.94 × 7.94 cm)
Overall (lacquer box): 3 1/4 × 3 1/8 × 3 1/8 inches (8.26 × 7.94 × 7.94 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: the Asian Art Acquisition Fund in memory of Laurence Sickman
Object number2018.34.2.1-3
SignedSigned on the base with gold hiramaki-e characters Yoshio tsukuru 嘉夫造 (Made by Yoshio).
InscribedThe pawlonia storage box is inscribed by the artist
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Not on viewCollections
DescriptionKanshitsu lacquer body enclosing an inner tray; gold, silver, aokin, and colored togidashi maki-e with gold nashiji on a polished black-lacquer ground; the inner tray in gold nashiji on black lacquer.Gallery Label
Tradition and innovation coexist in Box with Twin Skies with Fleeting Clouds.
Although Okada Yoshio used a conventional technique of dry-lacquer and
traditional motifs of the sun and moon, he expressed his interest in the celestial
phenomena in an unconventional way. By depicting the two motifs on the top and
bottom and making the two components of the box interchangeable, the artist modernized
the concept of a box.
With Erik Thomsen, New York, by April 2018;
Purchased from Erik Thomsen by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2018.Copyright© Okada Yoshio
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