A NASHIJI GROUND BUNDAI decorated in gold and silver hiramakie, takamakie, kirikane and kimpun with a large pine, a tachibana tree, camellia and a plum tree issuing from rockworks, cranes and minogame in a stream, Tokugawa mon scattered among the scene, some with each aoi leaf in different colour, wood-grain patterned copper gilt fittings (some old damage), 17th Century

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A NASHIJI GROUND BUNDAI decorated in gold and silver hiramakie, takamakie, kirikane and kimpun with a large pine, a tachibana tree, camellia and a plum tree issuing from rockworks, cranes and minogame in a stream, Tokugawa mon scattered among the scene, some with each aoi leaf in different colour, wood-grain patterned copper gilt fittings (some old damage), 17th Century
58 x 11.5 x 34cm.

Lot Essay

A similar design including similar Tokugawa aoi mon is seen on a tebako which was sold at Christie's, 20 November 1990, lot 969 and is illustrated in Watt/Brennan Ford, East Asian Lacquer, The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection (New York 1991), pp. 250-254. The tebako is said to be a part of a large set of lacquer objects made specially for Kame-hime, the adopted daughter of the Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, who married Maeda Mitsutaka at the tender age of seven in 1633
This bundai does not include the hidden poem which was skillfully incorporated in the design of the tebako but the technique and the design are very much reminiscent of the latter

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