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A SET OF THREE LETTER CASES (FUBAKO)
edo period (late 18th-early 19th century)
Of graduated size, designed identically in gold, some red and some silver takamaki-e with Chinese rocks and peonies against a nashiji ground, horizontal bands of mist rendered in togidashi or in takamaki-e with okibirame, veins of the foliage keuchi, several blossoms covered by gold foil, the rocks ornamented with okibirame and the small grasses in the foregrounds and on the sides gold hiramaki-e, the interiors of all three cases matching nashiji and lacquered on the undersides of the lids and lower opposite section with a spray of bamboo in gold hiramaki-e, the bases roiro and nashiji, ring cord fittings silver cast in the form of hollyhock crests; contained in matching black lacquer storage boxes each mounted with metal ring fittings cast as hollyhock crests and etched with a spray of bamboo matching those on the interior of the paper cases and inscribed with the characters for 'Pine pavilion', their original location in a mansion--lengths 12, 18¼ and 23 1/8in. (30.3, 46 and 58.4cm.), heights 3 1/8, 3½ and 4in. (7.8, 9 and 10.3cm.) (3)
edo period (late 18th-early 19th century)
Of graduated size, designed identically in gold, some red and some silver takamaki-e with Chinese rocks and peonies against a nashiji ground, horizontal bands of mist rendered in togidashi or in takamaki-e with okibirame, veins of the foliage keuchi, several blossoms covered by gold foil, the rocks ornamented with okibirame and the small grasses in the foregrounds and on the sides gold hiramaki-e, the interiors of all three cases matching nashiji and lacquered on the undersides of the lids and lower opposite section with a spray of bamboo in gold hiramaki-e, the bases roiro and nashiji, ring cord fittings silver cast in the form of hollyhock crests; contained in matching black lacquer storage boxes each mounted with metal ring fittings cast as hollyhock crests and etched with a spray of bamboo matching those on the interior of the paper cases and inscribed with the characters for 'Pine pavilion', their original location in a mansion--lengths 12, 18¼ and 23 1/8in. (30.3, 46 and 58.4cm.), heights 3 1/8, 3½ and 4in. (7.8, 9 and 10.3cm.) (3)