A Rinpa-Style Lacquer Writing Box (Suzuribako)
A Rinpa-Style Lacquer Writing Box (Suzuribako)

EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A Rinpa-Style Lacquer Writing Box (Suzuribako)
Early 20th Century
Rectangular with rounded corners and slightly domed lid, decorated with the figure of a young oxherd, rendered in gold takamakie, playing the flute, inlaid in aogai, while resting on an ox, worked in pewter with inlaid mother-of-pearl horns, the wicker basket to the left on the underside of the lid roiro-nuri ground and gold willow branches, fitted with inkstone and silver bird-form water dropper
9½ x 8 1/8 x 1¾in. (24.2 x 20.7 x 4.5cm.)