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EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY)
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A Ryukyu Lacquer Powder Flask
Edo Period (17th Century)
The flask of black lacquer inlaid in raden with a sage sitting beneath a pine tree beside a basket containing fern shoots, the reverse with peonies and foliage, the edge of the flask with a diaper pattern with a pot-shaped border, the ivory neck carved in finely detailed high relief with a dragon emerging from clouds, the cover and cord-lugs of dark horn
4 1/8in. (10.4cm.) high
Edo Period (17th Century)
The flask of black lacquer inlaid in raden with a sage sitting beneath a pine tree beside a basket containing fern shoots, the reverse with peonies and foliage, the edge of the flask with a diaper pattern with a pot-shaped border, the ivory neck carved in finely detailed high relief with a dragon emerging from clouds, the cover and cord-lugs of dark horn
4 1/8in. (10.4cm.) high
Literature
Michael Dean, Le Palais Sanada et l'Ecole Bunbu, La Maison Yokata et les armes a feu secretes du fief Matsushiro, Bulletin Association Franco-Japonaise, no. 63 (January 1999), p. 10.
Special notice
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