20TH CENTURY (SIGNED TAKAMITSU)
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A LACQUER WRITING BOX (SUZURIBAKO)
20th century (signed takamitsu)
Of rectangular shape with rounded corners decorated in Rimpa style with a red lacquer ground bordered by thick clouds of silver and gold or nashiji and gold and silver kirigane and with two cranes of mother-of-pearl applied to a hill of pewter with green lacquer pines, the cloud bands and red lacquer continued on the sides; the interior of the box decorated with silver waves copied from a design by Ogata Korin on a nashiji ground and fitted with an inkstone and gilt-metal circular mizuire, the base roiro and the rims silver
10 x 8 7/8 x 2 1/8in. (25.4 x 22.6 x 5.5cm.)
20th century (signed takamitsu)
Of rectangular shape with rounded corners decorated in Rimpa style with a red lacquer ground bordered by thick clouds of silver and gold or nashiji and gold and silver kirigane and with two cranes of mother-of-pearl applied to a hill of pewter with green lacquer pines, the cloud bands and red lacquer continued on the sides; the interior of the box decorated with silver waves copied from a design by Ogata Korin on a nashiji ground and fitted with an inkstone and gilt-metal circular mizuire, the base roiro and the rims silver
10 x 8 7/8 x 2 1/8in. (25.4 x 22.6 x 5.5cm.)