A LACQUER INCENSE BOX (KOBAKO)

EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

细节

A LACQUER INCENSE BOX (KOBAKO)
edo period (19th century)
Of rectangular form, lacquered on the exterior in gold takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, togidashi and okibirame, the cover with a thatch-roofed cottage and waterwheel by a river, a waterfall issuing from mountains overhead, the ivory waterwheel encased beneath a round sheet of glass and activated by the flow of mercury, the four sides decorated with similar river landscapes of rolling hills, temple buildings and cottages, the interior and base nashiji, rims silver
5 3/8 x 4 1/8 x 2¼in. (13.5 x 10.7 x 5.7cm.)

拍品专文

There are a number of eighteenth and nineteenth-century boxes that incorporate mercury-activated waterfalls and waterwheels. For other examples see Andrew Pekarik, Japanese Lacquer, 1600-1900: Selections from the Charles A. Greenfield Collection (New York: The Metropolitan Musuem of Art, 1980), fig. 25, p. 30; Anne Yonemura, Japanese Lacquer (Washington, D.C.: The Freer Gallery of Art, 1979), no. 25, pp. 52-53. For another example in this sale see lot ---.