Lot Essay
Other table screens of slightly different shapes but with similar inlaid decorations are illustrated in Lacquer Wares from the Museum Yamato Bunkakan Collection, illustrated catalogue series No.3, 1975, p.66, pl.113. This one has inscriptions on the reverse side like the current example. The other, with hard stone inlays on the reverse side, is published in Karamono, Imported Lacquerwork - Chinese, Korean and Ryukyuan (Okinawa), Selections from the Tokugawa Art Museum No.2, Tokugawa 1997, pl.161