A CARVED LACQUER FOUR-DRAWER CABINET

19TH CENTURY

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A CARVED LACQUER FOUR-DRAWER CABINET
19th Century
Decorated on a roironuri, green and red lacquer ground in tsuishu, tsuikoku style carved in low relief with a design of stylized flowerheads within a mokko pattern with surrounded stylized ho-o birds to corners, with metal handles, four shaped feet, (cracks)
13.4 x 13 x 13.6cm.

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. 84 (illustrated on p.24)

Lot Essay

James Orange attributed this miniature chest to the "Zokoki" family in Sanuki. Tamakaji Zokoku of Takamatsu in Sanuki Province (1806-1869) was famous for his carved and coloured lacquer, making Orange's attribution quite plausible although it cannot be conclusively proved.

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