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TAISHO PERIOD (EARLY 20TH CENTURY)
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A lacquer writing box (suzuribako)
Taisho period (early 20th century)
The large writing box with rounded corners and overhanging lid varicolored gold, silver and red hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, gold foil, togidashi, kirikane and nashiji on a roiro and evenly placed sparse gold hirame ground with a Sanbaso dancer on stage, the underside of the lid decorated with a plum tree in bloom and arrowroot and dandelions below on a nashiji ground, the box decorated with scattered plum blossoms and early spring ferns and fitted with a slate inkstone with fundame rim and the metal fittings to hold a round waterdropper (suiteki), now missing; nashiji ground
9½ x 8 5/8 x 1¾in. (24 x 21.9 x 4.5cm.)
Taisho period (early 20th century)
The large writing box with rounded corners and overhanging lid varicolored gold, silver and red hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, gold foil, togidashi, kirikane and nashiji on a roiro and evenly placed sparse gold hirame ground with a Sanbaso dancer on stage, the underside of the lid decorated with a plum tree in bloom and arrowroot and dandelions below on a nashiji ground, the box decorated with scattered plum blossoms and early spring ferns and fitted with a slate inkstone with fundame rim and the metal fittings to hold a round waterdropper (suiteki), now missing; nashiji ground
9½ x 8 5/8 x 1¾in. (24 x 21.9 x 4.5cm.)
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