EDO/MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY)

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FIVE KISERUZUTSU [PIPECASES]
Edo/Meiji period (Late 19th/Early 20th century)
A pipecase of lacquered wood carved to simulate basketwork, with decoration in gold and coloured takamaki-e, metal fitting, signed on the reverse in gold hiramaki-e on a raised black lacquer panel Taisai; another of black lacquer ground with squares of silver foil, decorated in gold, aokin, silver and red takamaki-e with a shishimai [lion-dance] performer beneath a shimenawa [sacred straw rope], a sprig of bamboo to one side, metal fitting, the plug finished in ivory, signed in gold hiramaki-e towards the base with four indistinct characters of which the second is hana or ka [flower]; another of dark reddish-brown lacquer carved through to a pale reddish-brown undercoat, showing slightly differently coloured layers of lacquer and decorated with vine leaves, the exposed section of the plug in the same technique, metal fitting, unsigned; another of black lacquer carved through to a pale yellow undercoat embellished with shell, and decorated with a tennin [Buddhist angel] playing the flute with a boy attendant holding a lotus stem, metal fitting, signed on the reverse in incised characters Ryugyoku to [carved by Ryugyoku]; and another of black lacquer decorated in silver hiramaki-e with rats, gilt metal fitting, signed on the side in gold hiramaki-e Issai saku [made by Issai]
8 5/8in. (21.9cm.), 8 5/8in. (22cm.), 8 3/8in. (21.2cm.), 8½in. (21.5cm.) and 8½in. (21.7cm.) long respectively (5)

注意事項

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拍品專文

The first character of the name Taisai was also used by Ikeda Taishin (1825-1903), the leading pupil of Shibata Zeshin, and it is
therefore likely that Taishin was, in turn, Taisai's master. Although we know little about Taisai's life, a few examples of his work have recently been published; for a pipecase by him see T. Goke, J. Hutt, and E.A. Wrangham, The Khalili Collection: Treasures of Imperial Japan, vol. 4, Lacquer (London, 1995), cat. no. 90.