1995.197.A-E.FA Chest of Drawers

This gold lacquer chest bears motifs that are familiar to earlier painting traditions. The landscape scenes on the outside have rivers and plum trees that appear to come from paintings by the great Rimpa artist Ogata Korin (1658-1716). When the two doors are opened, the scene that sweeps across from left to right is the willow bridge that spans the Uji River near Kyoto. The Willow Bridge is a famous classical poem that inspired screen painting of this subject in the Momoyama (1568-1600) and early Edo (1600-1868) periods. 

Japan (nation): TGN: 1000120

bronze: AAT: 300010957

gold (metal): AAT: 300011021

hinges (hardware): AAT: 300033367

lacquer (coating): AAT: 300014916

Ogata Korin: ULAN: 500034109

birds (animals): AAT: 300266506

bridges (built works): AAT: 300004829

chest of drawers: AAT: 300039009

flower (motif): AAT: 300375563

gardens (open spaces): AAT: 300008090

Kyoto: TGN: 7004603

landscapes (representations): AAT: 300015636

painting (visual works): AAT: 300033618

rivers: AAT: 300008707

trees (plants): AAT: 300132410

willow (wood): AAT: 300012498\

Before 1995: Talk-A-Radio Sales Corporation, Inc., The John R. Young Collection [1] 

1995: Dallas Museum of Art, Foundation for the Arts, gift of the Mrs. John B. O'Hara Fund, purchase from above [2] 

The main source for this provenance is the object summary dated July 12, 1996, copy in Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records object file. Supporting documentation and exceptions are noted. 

[1] See John R. Young's signed affidavit dated March 29, 1995 attesting to Talk-A-Radio Sales Corporation, Inc.'s full ownership of the object, copy in object file. 

[2] The Foundation for the Arts is a non-profit corporation created as a title-holding entity to serve the people of Dallas but to operate independently of the City. The Dallas Museum of Art (at its own cost) is responsible for the care, storage, insurance, conservation and maintenance of the collection, and agrees to maintain the highest museum standards in the management and handling of the Foundation’s collection. The title to all works of art purchased or otherwise acquired by the Foundation for the Arts is retained by the Foundation.

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