A Negoro Stem Table

MOMOYAMA PERIOD, DATED KEICHO 2, 12TH MONTH, 12TH DAY (1597.12.12) AND INSCRIBED SHONIN (PRIEST) AND WITH CURSIVE MONOGRAM (KAO)

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A Negoro Stem Table
Momoyama Period, dated Keicho 2, 12th month, 12th day (1597.12.12) and inscribed shonin (priest) and with cursive monogram (kao)
With square top within raised borders and canted corners on a splayed stem foot, the red lacquer worn in places revealing the underlayer of black lacquer
15¼ x 15¼in. (38.6 x 38.6cm.); 9¼in. (23.3cm.) high

Exhibited

Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo, "Negoro-nuri" (Negoro ware), 1979.4.3--5.27
Sakai City Museum, Sakai, "Shu-urushi (Negoro): Sono yo to bi-shunki tokubetsuten (Red lacquer: Utility and beauty of Negoro, spring special exhibition)," 1986.4.26--5.25
Ishikawa Prefecture Wajima Lacquer Museum (Ishikawa-ken Wajima Shitsugei Bijutsukan), Wajima, "Tokubetsuten: Negoro, sono katachi to iro (Special exhibition: Negoro, form and color)," 1998.10.10--12.7

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Kawada Sadamu, Negoro-nuri (Negoro ware) in Nihon no bijutsu 120 (Tokyo: Shibundo, 1976), no. 76.
Santorii Bijutsukan (Suntory Museum of Art), Negoro-nuri (Negoro ware) (Tokyo: Suntory Museum of Art, 1979), no. 10.
Kawada Sadamu, Negoro (Kyoto: Shikosha, 1985), pl. 32.
Sakai City Museum, Shu-urushi (Negoro): Sono yo to bi-shunki tokubetsuten (Red lacquer: Utility and beauty of Negoro, spring special exhibition) (Sakai: Sakai City Museum, 1986), pl. 19 and no. 19.
Wajima Lacquer Museum (Wajima Shitsugei Bijutsukan), ed., Tokubetsuten: Negoro, sono katachi to iro (Special exhibition: Negoro, form and color) (Wajima: Ishikawa Prefecture Wajima Lacquer Museum, 1998), no. 9.

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