Artworks

Food stand

Artwork · Anonymous · 1001–1200 · furniture · Kyoto National Museum

One of the rare well-preserved pieces of Heian household furniture: a round stand for food on a single stem, modelled on a wooden core and lacquered red. It differs only slightly from those shown in the interiors of narrative scrolls. Plain red and black were the standard colours of Japanese lacquer (negoro). 1 Mason 2005, p. 106, fig. 129. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.