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Lot Essay
A very similar example is part of the Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It is illustrated in J.C.Y. Watt and B. Brennan Ford, East Asian Lacquer, the Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1992, p.140, pl.64.
The caption for this box insists on the "rustic charm", the "great care of the carving" and on the possible Ryukyuan provenance. As a matter of fact, the basketry panel is a decoration one can find on several lacquer boxes attributed to the Ryukyu Islands.
Another similar box is kept at the Cleveland Museum, Cleveland.
The caption for this box insists on the "rustic charm", the "great care of the carving" and on the possible Ryukyuan provenance. As a matter of fact, the basketry panel is a decoration one can find on several lacquer boxes attributed to the Ryukyu Islands.
Another similar box is kept at the Cleveland Museum, Cleveland.