Lot 517
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AN OVAL SHAKUDO-NANAKO AND GILT TOBACCO BOX, the hinged cover decorated with a foliate-shaped panel of an European figure in a ship with Dutch flag on a river, the banks with pavilions beneath birds perched on pine and blossoming prunus trees issuing from rockwork, the sides with four cartouches of birds perched on trees, the back with a panel of two pavilions amidst lotus and peony beneath a flying crane, shakudo rims, late 18th/early 19th Century

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AN OVAL SHAKUDO-NANAKO AND GILT TOBACCO BOX, the hinged cover decorated with a foliate-shaped panel of an European figure in a ship with Dutch flag on a river, the banks with pavilions beneath birds perched on pine and blossoming prunus trees issuing from rockwork, the sides with four cartouches of birds perched on trees, the back with a panel of two pavilions amidst lotus and peony beneath a flying crane, shakudo rims, late 18th/early 19th Century
9cm. wide

Lot Essay

A very fine example of this metalwork style, long supposed to be Chinese, devised for the Dutch market and employed mostly in snuff and tobacco boxes, cups, sword hilts and other small objects during the period from the late 18th to the early 19th century. Its inspiration would appear to be the 17th century Mino-Goto school and its monobori technique, but with the gilt and shakudo transposed.

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