Writing Table (Bundai) with Melons and Squirrels

Date

first half of the 17th century

Type

Writing table

Medium

Lacquered wood with gold hiramaki-e and e-nashiji (“pear-skin picture”)

Department

Asian Art

Culture

Japan

Institution

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Object number

2015.300.283

Credit

Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation, 2015