A suzuribako and matching bunko

IN THE STYLE OF IGARASHI DOHO, MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY)

細節

A suzuribako and matching bunko
In the style of Igarashi Doho, Meiji Period (Late 19th/early 20th Century)
The decoration of the exterior of each box consists of autumn flowers, including Chinese bellflowers, chrysanthemums, bush clover and hydrangeas in a marshy landscape, with spiders' webs joining some of the flowers, the techniques employed are gold and silver takamakie, hiramakie and togidashie with tsukegaki, gold and silver kirikane, ginpun, kinpun and raden inlay on a nashiji ground, the interior of the bunko cover depicts two houses and a thatched shelter beside a bridge over a stream, cranes, mandarin ducks, jakago [baskets of stones to prevent erosion of the bank], pine, willow, bamboo, sedge, water plantain, camellia and a brushwood fence line the banks of the stream, the interior of the cover of the suzuribako depicts a similar scene with a house and waterwheel beside a stream, rocks inside both covers are enriched with gold and silver uchikomi, a brushwood fence beside the house formed from inlaid rods of gold, a technique commonly used in high-quality 17th century work, the suzuribako fitted with a fretted tray containing a suzuri and silver suiteki in the form of a crane, the decoration of a house, a plum tree, bamboo and sedge beside a stream, rim of suzuribako loose
1¾ x 8.7/8 x 10¼in. (4.6 x 22.6 x 26cm.) and 6.1/8 x 13¾ x 16¾in. (15.6 x 35 x 42.8cm) respectively (2)

拍品專文

Silver (rather than pewter) rims to the boxes and covers and the incorporation of the togidashi technique indicate a date of manufacture around the turn of the 19th/20th century. However, all the outer techniques on the interior and exterior of the boxes is faithful both in style and technique to Igarashi work made in Kyoto and Kaga in the late 17th/early 18th century.