(20TH CENTURY)

Details

A Lacquer Picnic Set for Soba Noodles (Soba Bento)
(20th century)
Decorated in shunkei-nuri with the surface texture of the wood beneath with a striated surface, the carrying frame set on a low stand and fitted with six removable sliding side panels that are used for serving trays, the utensils of bamboo lacquered to match the frame and comprising: five covered bowls, each with a fitted circular dish and set into a removable tray; a rectangular covered box containing five small square bottles with stoppers, five soba cups and a square sake flask in a removable bamboo basket; two rectangular drawers; the frame with lobed apertures on each side
14 3/8 x 14½ x 10¾in. (36.5 x 36.8 x 27.3cm.)

Provenance

Ide Takashi

Exhibited

Machida City Museum, "Bentobako" (Bento boxes), 1985.9.10--10.20

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Arakawa Hirokazu, ed., Utage to tabi no utsuwa: Bentobako (Bento boxes: Utensils for party and travel) (Tokyo: Shikosha, 1990), pl. 46.
Bentobako (Bento boxes), exh. cat. (Machida: Machida City Museum, 1985) no. 47.

The lacquer technique shunkei-nuri takes its name from a 14th-century lacquer artist known as Shunkei who worked in Osaka. Pieces done in this technique are first stained with red or yellow and then covered with a translucent lacquer coating.

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