Anonymous

Edo/Meiji Period, 18th/19th century

1615-1912

Tebako

A rectangular body tebako box depicting red, green, gold, and brown stripes with butterflies in hiramakie, takamakie on a roiro ground with a nashiji interior. Bronze rings with the kuyo kamon mon and silk ties.   

This box originally came from the collection of Edward C Moore who was a well-established silversmith in New York City during the 19th century, Moore became highly successful joining Tiffany & co. as an outside craftsman in 1868 under which he would work exclusively for Tiffany's working as the firm's chief silver designer until he died in 1891.

Over his lifetime, Moore amassed a large collection of art, with a focus on art from Japan, the Islamic world, and ancient Greece and Rome. His collection contains somewhere between 1,600 and 1,700 pieces. In 1891 he bequeathed many objects from his collection to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Unsigned

131mm x 136mm x 197mm