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Inro with Peacocks

Inro with Peacocks

Culture: Japanese

Date: 1868 - 1912 (Meiji period)
Medium: lacquer and gold
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (8.9 x 6.4 cm)
Credit Line:Gift, Katharine and William A. Arnold
Object number: 1953.21.7
Inro are small decorative containers that hang from the waist. They originated at the end of the sixteenth century and were worn by men to hold seals and herbal and other medicines.
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