Tray with rice stalks and a grasshopper on a tea kettle

Shibata Zeshin, 1880s

Artist

Shibata Zeshin (Japanese, 1807–1891)

Date

1880s

Culture or place

Japan

Medium

Lacquered wood; gold, silver, red, yellow, black hiramaki-e and takamaki-e on “bronze imitation” (seido-nuri) ground

Size

L. 14 3/4 in. (37.5 cm)

Type

Lacquer

Museum

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Licence

Public domain: free to use, no permission needed