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A LACQUER WRITING BOX (SUZURIBAKO)
edo period (19th century), signed kajikawa and with kakihan
The rectangular box decorated in iro-e hiramaki-e on a mirror-black ground with three Chinese children, two drawing on their plump companion while he naps and they abandon the lesson book open before them, the border gyobu-nashiji which extends to the sides; the underside also decorated in iro-e hiramaki-e with five other boys making music or riding a hobby-horse, one standing by a stationary screen of a misty landscape executed in sumi-e togidashi and signed in gold lacquer Eisen-in (Kano Eisen-in), the background nashiji as is the lower section of the box containing the inkstone and gilt-metal diamond shaped mizuire; signed on the underside of the removable implement tray, silver rims--8¼ x 9 x 1¾in. (20.9 x 22.8 x 4.4cm.)
edo period (19th century), signed kajikawa and with kakihan
The rectangular box decorated in iro-e hiramaki-e on a mirror-black ground with three Chinese children, two drawing on their plump companion while he naps and they abandon the lesson book open before them, the border gyobu-nashiji which extends to the sides; the underside also decorated in iro-e hiramaki-e with five other boys making music or riding a hobby-horse, one standing by a stationary screen of a misty landscape executed in sumi-e togidashi and signed in gold lacquer Eisen-in (Kano Eisen-in), the background nashiji as is the lower section of the box containing the inkstone and gilt-metal diamond shaped mizuire; signed on the underside of the removable implement tray, silver rims--8¼ x 9 x 1¾in. (20.9 x 22.8 x 4.4cm.)