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EDO PERIOD (18TH-19TH CENTURY)
細節
A Lacquer Writing Box (Suzuribako)
Edo Period (18th-19th Century)
Rectangular, with canted corners and inlaid on the cover with a mechanical waterwheel and a lustrous landscape of gold lacquer rendered principally in takamaki-e and hiramaki-e with highlights of e-nashiji, okibirame and togidashi; in the center of the design a woman balances on a beam to operate the waterwheel, a ploughman and horse are to the right and three women are harvesting rice in the same field in the middle ground, and to the left are a willow, pine and camellia, with blossoms of inlaid coral, and a river which flows to the lower front and right side of the box, and hills, pines and clouds; the spokes of the waterwheel probably of wood and propelled by mercury encased in a compartment below the inset glass roundel surrounding the wheel; the underside of the lid decorated in gold hiramaki-e and low-relief takamaki-e with a scene of two fishermen in a boat, a pine, large seashells, some gold lacquer and some inlaid in mother-of-pearl, and a salt kiln and young pines; the lower interior fitted with a removable inkstone tray of nashiji holding a rectangular inkstone sprinkled with matching nashiji, a silver mizuire, a paper-pricker, paper knife and brush case of mura-nashiji and gold hiramaki-e florets, the area below the tray and the base of the box roiro and sparser nashiji, the rims silver
7.1/8 x 6.1/8 x 1¼in. (17.9 x 15.4 x 3.3cm.)
Edo Period (18th-19th Century)
Rectangular, with canted corners and inlaid on the cover with a mechanical waterwheel and a lustrous landscape of gold lacquer rendered principally in takamaki-e and hiramaki-e with highlights of e-nashiji, okibirame and togidashi; in the center of the design a woman balances on a beam to operate the waterwheel, a ploughman and horse are to the right and three women are harvesting rice in the same field in the middle ground, and to the left are a willow, pine and camellia, with blossoms of inlaid coral, and a river which flows to the lower front and right side of the box, and hills, pines and clouds; the spokes of the waterwheel probably of wood and propelled by mercury encased in a compartment below the inset glass roundel surrounding the wheel; the underside of the lid decorated in gold hiramaki-e and low-relief takamaki-e with a scene of two fishermen in a boat, a pine, large seashells, some gold lacquer and some inlaid in mother-of-pearl, and a salt kiln and young pines; the lower interior fitted with a removable inkstone tray of nashiji holding a rectangular inkstone sprinkled with matching nashiji, a silver mizuire, a paper-pricker, paper knife and brush case of mura-nashiji and gold hiramaki-e florets, the area below the tray and the base of the box roiro and sparser nashiji, the rims silver
7.1/8 x 6.1/8 x 1¼in. (17.9 x 15.4 x 3.3cm.)
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