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Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Bonsai

Shibata Zeshin

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A bonsai tree on a wooden platform with a brown bark-like texture, the top a flat round shape with an uneven edge. A dog sits on a bonsai pot with a red rim and white body with a red design on it. The bonsai in the pot has sparse short green leaves. There are several more bonsai trees around the wooden platform on low white pedestals or in circular pots. The bonsai trees have thin sparse green foliage except for a short green cactus on a white pedestal. To the right of the platform, on a beige background, are Asian characters; one group written vertically in black and a second group written in red to the right.

Artwork Details

Date
1882
Medium
Lacquer on paper
Culture
Japan
Dimensions
556 × 624 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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