19TH CENTURY
Details
A PAIR OF TWO-TIERED LACQUER KOBAKO WITH A STAND
19th Century
The square boxes and covers decorated with gold and silver takamakie on a roironuri ground with carpenter's utensils including a saw, an axe, measuring sticks, interior cases nashiji, a tray decorated in nashiji and a mokume ground of gold and silver togidashi and kimpun with a well for two gold boxes, with a brass handle
19cm. wide
19th Century
The square boxes and covers decorated with gold and silver takamakie on a roironuri ground with carpenter's utensils including a saw, an axe, measuring sticks, interior cases nashiji, a tray decorated in nashiji and a mokume ground of gold and silver togidashi and kimpun with a well for two gold boxes, with a brass handle
19cm. wide
Provenance
Orange Collection
Literature
Orange, James, Catalogue of a Small Collection of Japanese Lacquer, Made by James Orange, Hong Kong (Hong Kong, 1907; reprinted Yokohama, 1910), cat. no. 56 (illustrated on p.20)