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A LACQUER BOX AND COVER
(early 20th century), signed shuetsu saku [mukoda shuetsu (1881-1933)]
The large, rectangular box decorated overall in gold and silver on a roiro-nuri ground with plovers flying over cresting waves, the birds executed in hiramaki-e, togidashi or applied in enamel and gilt-metal, the water togidashi and nashiji and the pines on rocks in takamaki-e enhanced by okibirame and keuchi and nashiji, the upper rim gyobu; the underside of the lid designed with a book of poems of the thirty-six poets open to a folded page, on the left, with the portrait of Ono no Komachi opposite one of her poems, on the right, the next page of the book, on the back of the folded portrait page is the start of a poem by another poet, all lacquered in iro-e togidashi, hiramaki-e and nashiji against the roiro and hirame ground, a silver ginko leaf applied over the edge of the book beside two other black and gold togidashi leaves; signed in gold lacquer on the underside of the lid; fittings silver and lacquered wood of chrysanthemum form, interior lined in brocade below roiro border--11 x 8 5/8 x 8 7/8in. (28 x 22.3 x 22.7cm.)
