Live Auction 7416Japanese Art and Design and The Francois Storno Collection of Netsuke
A FINE CYLINDRICAL JUBAKO [FOOD CONTAINER]
Lot 8

A FINE CYLINDRICAL JUBAKO [FOOD CONTAINER]

EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH-18TH CENTURY)

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GBP 9,600

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A FINE CYLINDRICAL JUBAKO [FOOD CONTAINER]
EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH-18TH CENTURY)
The four tiered box and cover decorated in gold and silver hiramaki-e, warigaki and tsukegaki with botan [tree peonies] and sakura-so [primrose] on a nashiji ground, the interior in red lacquer with fundame rims and the area within the foot-rim in sparse nashiji
23.3cm. high

Specialist note

Another example of similar period is illustrated in Glendining and Co., auction catalogue of the W.L. Behrens Collection [by H.L. Joly], part II, Lacquer and Inro (London, 1914), No. 203, Plate IX.

This style of jubako was used for flower-viewing picnics.