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THE FLORENCE AND HERBERT IRVING COLLECTION
A SET OF WRITING TABLE (BUNDAI), WRITING BOX (SUZURIBAKO) AND PAPER BOX (FUBAKO)
SCHOOL OF SHIBATA ZESHIN (1807-1891), JAPAN, MEIJI PERIOD, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Details
A SET OF WRITING TABLE (BUNDAI), WRITING BOX (SUZURIBAKO) AND PAPER BOX (FUBAKO)
SCHOOL OF SHIBATA ZESHIN (1807-1891), JAPAN, MEIJI PERIOD, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Each executed in red, black and silver lacquer to simulate bamboo and applied with ants of black lacquer on the table, a cricket of black lacquer on the writing box and two snails on the paper box, the underside of the table and the interiors of both boxes in gyobu nashiji, each piece inscribed Zeshin
Writing table 4 ¾ in. (12 cm.) high, 23 ¼ in. (59 cm.) wide, 13 ¼ in. (33.6 cm.) deep
Writing box 9 in. (22.9 cm.) long
Paper box 15 7/8 in. (40.3 cm.) long
SCHOOL OF SHIBATA ZESHIN (1807-1891), JAPAN, MEIJI PERIOD, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Each executed in red, black and silver lacquer to simulate bamboo and applied with ants of black lacquer on the table, a cricket of black lacquer on the writing box and two snails on the paper box, the underside of the table and the interiors of both boxes in gyobu nashiji, each piece inscribed Zeshin
Writing table 4 ¾ in. (12 cm.) high, 23 ¼ in. (59 cm.) wide, 13 ¼ in. (33.6 cm.) deep
Writing box 9 in. (22.9 cm.) long
Paper box 15 7/8 in. (40.3 cm.) long
Provenance
Galaxie Art & Gift Company, Hong Kong, 1987.
The Irving Collection, no. 1878.
The Irving Collection, no. 1878.
Literature
James C. Y. Watt and Barbara Brennan Ford, East Asian Lacquer: The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1991, no. 143, p. 282-83.
Exhibited
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, East Asian Lacquer: The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, 22 November 1991- 23 February 1992.