A TEBAKO ['HANDY-BOX']

MEIJI/TAISHO PERIOD (EARLY 20TH CENTURY)

細節

A TEBAKO ['HANDY-BOX']
Meiji/Taisho Period (Early 20th Century)
Of elongated rectangular form with rounded corners and a flat lid; gold lacquer ground with flecks of gold foil; decoration in gold and silver hiramaki-e and takamaki-e with gold nashiji on the sides; interior and riser black lacquer with irregular silver foil mosaic; decoration in red and gold hiramaki-e and takamaki-e embellished with gold powder and shell; underside gold mura-nashiji; rims lined with silver

Exterior with a vertically oriented design in modified Rinpa style depicting Matsushima, one of the traditional Nihon sankei [three great sights of Japan]; interior with a red sun rising above the waves
3 x 4.3/8 x 8in. (7.8 x 11.2 x 21.5cm.)

來源

S. N. Nickerson Collection
Charles A. Greenfield Collection

出版

Eskenazi Limited, The Charles A. Greenfield Collection of Japanese Lacquer (London, 1990), cat. no. 62
Andrew J. Pekarik, Japanese Lacquer, 1600-1900: Selections from the Charles A. Greenfield Collection (New York, 1980), cat. no. 62, fig. 155

展覽

New York, 1980, Metropolitan Museum of Art

拍品專文

Matsushima, an archipelago of more than 260 sparsely pine-clad islands in a bay in north-eastern Japan, was celebrated in screen paintings by Ogata Korin (1658-1716) that were later reproduced in the printed book Korin hyakuzu [One Hundred Pictures by Korin, two volumes, 1815 and 1826]. Some lacquers were more or less directly copied from Korin hyakuzu1 but the extreme stylisation of this example suggests that it belongs somewhat outside the mainstream Edo-period lacquer tradition and perhaps dates from the first two decades of the 20th century, when Japanese decorative art came increasingly under the influence of later art nouveau, itself ironically a style which originally developed through Western awareness of Japanese art.

1 Honolulu Academy of Arts, Shadows and Reflections: Japanese Lacquer Art from the Collection of Edmund J. Lewis (Hong Kong, 1996), cat. no. 20.