A LACQUER BOX AND COVER CONTAINING A TEA BOWL AND WHISK

18TH CENTURY

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A LACQUER BOX AND COVER CONTAINING A TEA BOWL AND WHISK
18th Century
Decorated in silver, gold and iroe hiramakie, red lacquer and aogai inlay on a fundame ground with a Bugaku dancer behind a brocade cloth, an inner tray similarly decorated with a torikabuto and a sho, nashiji interior, containing a small red and mottled green Raku tea bowl with a bag, a bone teaspoon and a bamboo whisk with a wood cover, (slight wear)
20 x 14.7 x 13.7cm., teabowl, 9.2cm diam. and 7.3cm. high (4)

Provenance

Orange Collection

Literature

Orange, James, Catalogue of a Small Collection of Japanese Lacquer, Made by James Orange, Hong Kong (Hong Kong, 1907; reprinted Yokohama, 1910), cat. no. 35 (illustrated on p.16)

Lot Essay

The figure on the lid is wrongly identified in the Orange catalogue as a No dancer but is in fact a Bugaku dancer with a large drum and a curtain; the interior tray shows the dancer's cap and tassels and a sho, a musical instrument made up of many bamboo pipes arranged vertically.

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