A lacquer koro, a box and cover and a champleve snuff-container
A lacquer koro, a box and cover and a champleve snuff-container

THE KORO 18TH CENTURY, THE OTHERS 19TH CENTURY

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A lacquer koro, a box and cover and a champleve snuff-container
The koro 18th Century, the others 19th Century
The lacquer melon-shaped koro decorated in gold hiramakie on a nashiji ground with mons enclosing fans, the bronze cover pierced with a trellis pattern centred by a similar mon, 8.5 cm. diam.; a lacquer and shell box and cover, the top and base formed with two shell halves decorated in gilt with foliage sprays, repeated on the gilt lacquered wood sides, 10.5 cm. wide; and a black lacquered metal champlev snuff-container of tapering oval form, 10 cm. wide (some damages) (3)

Lot Essay

For a similar koro decorated with chrysanthemum sprays, see Ex Oriente Lux, European and Oriental Lacquer, Catalogue, BASF Lacquer Museum Catalogue, p.48, fig. 71

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