EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)

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A SUZURIBAKO [BOX FOR WRITING UTENSILS]
EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
WITH OVERHANGING LID, ROUNDED CORNERS AND EDGES DECORATED WITH SCROLLING KARAKUSA IN GOLD HIRAMAKI-E ON A FUNDAME GROUND, THE EXTERIOR MURA-NASHIJI GROUND DECORATED IN GOLD AND SILVER TAKAMAKI-E, HIRAMAKI-E, GIN-FUN, KIN-FUN, KAKIWARI, TSUKEGAKI, DEPICTING A CHINESE SCHOLAR SITTING ON A GARDEN SEAT COVERED WITH A LEOPARD SKIN, PLAYING THE KOTO BENEATH A WEEPING WILLOW, A KARAKO BESIDE HIM, THE INTERIOR DEPICTING A ROCKY LAKESIDE LANDSCAPE BENEATH THE MOON, INLAID IN SILVER, THE BASEBOARD HOLDING AN INKSTONE, SIDE TRAY AND A BRASS WATERDROPPER ACID-ETCHED WITH A DESIGN OF KIKU FLOATING ON A STREAM, FUNDAME RIMS
22.8CM. LONG

Literature

MIKE AND HIROKO DEAN, NIHON NO SHIKKI JAPANESE LACQUER - AN EXPOSITION (KYOTO, 1984), NO. 12

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Lot Essay

THE SCHOLAR DEPICTED IS PROBABLY TOENMEI (SHAHO BUKURO, SAGE OF THE FIVE WILLOWS), A CHINESE MAGISTRATE, WHO DIED 427AD. HE RETIRED TO A HOUSE IN FRONT OF WHICH HE PLANTED FIVE WILLOW TREES, FROM WHICH HE ACQUIRED HIS NAME.

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