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MEIJI PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)
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A lacquer writing box (suzuribako)
Meiji period (19th century)
The writing box with rounded corners and overhanging lid decorated in varicolored gold, silver and red hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, togidashi and kirikane with mandarin ducks in a meandering river to one side of a building, the underside of the lid decorated with pheasants in a maple tree on a riverbank, fitted with a small tray similarly decorated with maples on a riverbank, a slate inkstone with fundame rim, and a silver waterdropper (suiteki) in the form of two maple leaves, the ground of the box nashiji and the rims fundame
9½ x 8½ x 2in. (24.3 x 21.8 x 5.1cm.)
Meiji period (19th century)
The writing box with rounded corners and overhanging lid decorated in varicolored gold, silver and red hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, togidashi and kirikane with mandarin ducks in a meandering river to one side of a building, the underside of the lid decorated with pheasants in a maple tree on a riverbank, fitted with a small tray similarly decorated with maples on a riverbank, a slate inkstone with fundame rim, and a silver waterdropper (suiteki) in the form of two maple leaves, the ground of the box nashiji and the rims fundame
9½ x 8½ x 2in. (24.3 x 21.8 x 5.1cm.)
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