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MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)
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A LACQUER WRITING BOX (SUZURIBAKO)
MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)
Square, with overall design of striated clouds and sprinkles of gold and silver cut leaf to resemble the decorative endpapers of a sutra or handscroll, additionally embellished with a poem inlaid in gilt and silver characters, designed in dense nashiji, togidashi, takamaki-e and kirikane with a stream, rocks and the outlines of two hills, fitted with a rectangular inkstone and a gilded metal water dropper in the form of a fruiting gourd set into a removable tray
1 7/8 x 9 1/8 x 8 1/8 in. (4.7 x 23.3 x 20.7 cm)
MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)
Square, with overall design of striated clouds and sprinkles of gold and silver cut leaf to resemble the decorative endpapers of a sutra or handscroll, additionally embellished with a poem inlaid in gilt and silver characters, designed in dense nashiji, togidashi, takamaki-e and kirikane with a stream, rocks and the outlines of two hills, fitted with a rectangular inkstone and a gilded metal water dropper in the form of a fruiting gourd set into a removable tray
1 7/8 x 9 1/8 x 8 1/8 in. (4.7 x 23.3 x 20.7 cm)
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Takaaki Murakami