LATE 18TH CENTURY

细节

A Japanese Nagasaki lacquered copper panel
LATE 18TH CENTURY
Inlaid in aogai (mother-of-pearl) with two travellers seated on a trunk before a central pyramid surrounded by Roman columns and a crenellated wall in the background, to the right various figures in Western 18th Century-dress, the reverse inscribed in gold hiramakie with the inscription Pyramide de Caius Cestius, among sprays of scattered flowers on a roironuri ground, slight wear
35.5 cm. high, 53.2 cm. wide

来源

Sotheby Mak van Waay, 1 November 1979, lot 1310.

注意事项

Christie's charge a premium to the buyer on the final bid price of each lot sold at the following rates: 23.8% of the final bid price of each lot sold up to and including €150,000 and 14.28% of any amount in excess of €150,000. Buyers' premium is calculated on the basis of each lot individually.

拍品专文

Most Nagasaki lacquer ware is made for the European market and its distinguishing feature is a combination of pearly-white and iridescent shell cut paper-thin with the resulting translucency used for pictorial effect by backing it with colours. For other examples of this ware see Nihon bijutsu no naka no seiyo, Western Influence on Japanese Art, 16th-19th Century, Fukuoka, 1995, pls. 71, 72, 74, 78 and 79.
Japanese lacquerwork decorated with representations from European prints and drawings only first appeared at the end of the 18th Century, suprisingly late compared to the 'Japon de Commande' porcelain. The black lacquered copper plaques with cityscapes, historical scenes or portraits in gold lacquer and mother-of-pearl, quickly became extremely polular as exclusive souvenirs and collector's items.