A Namban-Style Export Lacquer Container for Wafers for the Eucharist

MOMOYAMA PERIOD (17TH CENTURY)

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A Namban-Style Export Lacquer Container for Wafers for the Eucharist
Momoyama period (17th century)
Circular and set on three scroll feet and designed in inlaid mother-of-pearl on black lacquer with a stylized flower design, based on a Buddhist wheel, surrounded by a stiff-leaf and link band in the center, the edge of the cover decorated with a similar leaf and link design, the canted edge inlaid with crushed aogai and the sides of the box with a mother-of-pearl ground pattern, underside decorated in aogai; interior dusted with sparse crushed shell inlays
4 1/8in. (10.5cm.) diameter; 2 5/8in. (6.7cm.) high

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Arakawa Hirokazu, Raden (Mother-of-pearl inlay) (Kyoto: Dobosha shuppan, 1985), pl. 149.

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