A Four-Case Stacking Lacquer Box for Tea Sweets

TAISHO PERIOD (EARLY 20TH CENTURY)

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A Four-Case Stacking Lacquer Box for Tea Sweets
Taisho period (early 20th century)
The small box set on four bracket feet and decorated with birds and flowers in gold, silver and red togidashi with kirigane and hirame highlights on a roiro ground, the bevelled edges and risers between layers covered with hirame on a black-lacquer ground, the underside of the cover lacquered with butterflies in gold, brown and red hiramaki-e, the interiors sparse nashiji on a roiro ground, edges fundame
6¼in. (15.8cm.) high

Lot Essay

Published:
Shiozaki Kazuko, ed., Maki-e saiko (Lacquer reconsidered) Yuraku 70 (January 1999), p. 9.

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