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17TH/18TH CENTURY AND WITH EXTENSIVE RESTORATIONS TO THE LACQUER
Details
A JAPANESE BLACK AND GILT-LACQUER COFFER
17TH/18TH CENTURY AND WITH EXTENSIVE RESTORATIONS TO THE LACQUER
Decorated overall with landscape, the interior depicting cranes in flights against a nashigi ground, locked and lacking key
23 ½ in. (60 cm.) high, 47 ¾ in. (121 cm.) wide, 23 ¾ in. (60.5 cm.) deep
17TH/18TH CENTURY AND WITH EXTENSIVE RESTORATIONS TO THE LACQUER
Decorated overall with landscape, the interior depicting cranes in flights against a nashigi ground, locked and lacking key
23 ½ in. (60 cm.) high, 47 ¾ in. (121 cm.) wide, 23 ¾ in. (60.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
Acquired from Sibyl Colefax and John Fowler, London, 1996.
Literature
Michael S. Smith with Diane Dorrans Saeks, Elements of Style, New York, 2004, pp. 18, 181-182.
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