JAPON, EPOQUE EDO, XIXEME SIECLE

Details

PALANQUIN CEREMONIEL EN LAQUE
JAPON, EPOQUE EDO, XIXEME SIECLE
Of typical form with sliding side-doors and upward-opening roof panels, the exterior is decorated in gold hiramaki-e and takamaki-e with Tokugawa aoi mon [family crests], stylised flowerheads and scrolling foliage against a black ground, with extensive chased gilt metal mounts, the interior with papered sides decorated in ink, colour and gold with court life and flowers with flying birds; with matching lacquered carrying pole.
Palanquin: 52 1/8 x 37 1/8 x 51 1/8 in. (135 x 95 x 130 cm.)
Carrying pole: 187 in. (475 cm.) long

Provenance

By repute, exhibited in the Universal Exhibition, Paris, 1889.
Acquired from a French family in Brittany, in 1974.

Exhibited

Further details

A LACQUERED CEREMONIAL PALANQUIN
JAPAN, EDO PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY

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Lot Essay

Compare to a very similar lacquered palanquin from the collection of Kozu Kobunka Museum, Kyoto, sold in Christie's New York, 23 March 2011, lot 816. Also see another sumptuous ceremonial palanquin, created in 1856 for the wedding of the princess Atsuhime, in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Boston, under the accession Number S1985.1a-h.

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