EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

Details

A Four-Tier Fan-Shaped Picnic Box (Ogi Bento)
Edo period (19th century)
The fan-shaped box fitted with four hinged drawers swinging out left and right, the exterior applied with a two-tone woven-bamboo surface, the interiors of the drawers lacquered red and black
6¼ x 7½ x 5in. (15.9 x 19 x 12.7cm.)

Provenance

Ide Takashi

Exhibited

Machida City Museum, "Bentobako" (Bento boxes), 1985.9.10--10.20

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Arakawa Hirokazu, ed., Utage to tabi no utsuwa: Bentobako (Bento boxes: Utensils for party and travel) (Tokyo: Shikosha, 1990), pl. 36.
Bentobako (Bento boxes), exh. cat. (Machida: Machida City Museum, 1985), no. 54.
Sakai Tadayasu et al., Bijutsu II (Tokyo: Mitsumura tosho, 2004), p. 13.

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