EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH - EARLY 18TH CENTURY)

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A KOBAKO [small box], CONTAINING A TRAY AND SEVEN KOGO [incense containers]
Edo Period (Late 17th - Early 18th Century)
The hexagonal kobako, with indented corners, on three short bamboo-shaped legs, the top and sides decorated, over the black ground, with the design of a cage formed from inlaid lengths of silver and five foxes in gold hiramaki-e, the interior containing seven kogo in the form of grapes inlaid with silver dewdrops, the tray decorated with a gift-wrapped spray of peony and plum blossom, nashiji interiors to the kobako and kogo, slight old wear
10.5cm. wide

Provenance

Rougemont de Loewenberg
de Montgermont
Paul Bruno
Hotel Drouot, Paris, 10 June 1903, sold for 2000FF

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Lot Essay

For a similar kogo in the form of grapes see Martha Boyer, Japanese Lacquers in the Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, 1970), pl. 82, no. 247.

For a further example from the collection of Marie-Antoinette in the Musée National des Chateaux de Versailles et de Trianon, see Exhibition Commemorating the 2005 World Exposition, Aichi, Japan, Arts of East and West from World Expositions 1855-1900: Paris, Vienna and Chicago (Tokyo, 2004), p. 73, pl. 1-175.

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