TWO CARVED LACQUER KISERUZUTSU [PIPECASE]
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TWO CARVED LACQUER KISERUZUTSU [PIPECASE]

EDO PERIOD/MEIJI (19TH CENTURY)

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TWO CARVED LACQUER KISERUZUTSU [PIPECASE]
Edo Period/Meiji (19th Century)
The first of greenish-black lacquer carved through in places to a pale brown ground, carved in relief with flowers and leaves against a geometric ground, signed towards the base on a rounded rectangular reserve Shoun; and another, black lacquer carved through to a red wave-patterned ground, with a design of peonies; the stopper with a stylised floral design, the base signed in incised characters Kokusai sei [made by Kokusai]
8¾in. (22.2cm.) and 9in. (23cm.) long respectively (2)
Provenance
The second, Henry Charles Clifford Collection
Literature
The second, Henri L. Joly and K. Tomita, Japanese Art and Handicraft: Loan Exhibition Held in Aid of the British Red Cross (London, 1916), cat. no. 16
Exhibited
The second, Red Cross Exhibition, 1915
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

A similar example by Shoun is recorded by Meinertzhagen; see E.A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists (Harehope, Northumberland, 1995), p. 257. Compare also T. Goke, J. Hutt, and E.A. Wrangham, The Khalili Collection: Treasures of Imperial Japan, vol. 4, Lacquer (London, 1995), cat. no. 89.
The name Kokusai was used by Fujikawa Shunzo (1808-1865), brother of Tamakaji Zokoku and a specialist in carved lacquer. See E.A. Wrangham, Ibid, p. 266.

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