Live Auction 7416Japanese Art and Design and The Francois Storno Collection of Netsuke
AN IMPRESSIVE INLAID BOX
Lot 46

AN IMPRESSIVE INLAID BOX

SEALED TEIJI, EDO-MEIJI PERIOD (MID-LATE 19TH CENTURY)

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AN IMPRESSIVE INLAID BOX
SEALED TEIJI, EDO-MEIJI PERIOD (MID-LATE 19TH CENTURY)
The two-tiered box and cover decorated in gold, red and silver hiramaki-e, takamaki-e and nashiji on a black lacquer ground with stylised birds and butterflies among clouds and flowers, and inlaid with glazed ceramic decoration of numerous insects, molluscs and crustaceans, nashiji interior
19cm. high

Specialist note

Teiji worked in Nagoya in the mid-19th century, one of a number of lacquerers who took part in the so-called 'Ritsuo revival' by using glazed pottery as well as or in addition to traditional techniques, other members of this group included Miura Ken'ya (1825-89) and Ito Kenkoku (b. 1853).1

1. E. A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists (Harehope, 1995), pp. 286-7; Honolulu Academy of Arts, Shadows and Reflections: Japanese Lacquer Art from the Collection of Edmund J. Lewis (Hong Kong, 1996), cat. no. 26