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UNSIGNED, EDO PERIOD (17TH-18TH CENTURY)
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A BASKETWORK BUNKO [BOX FOR STATIONERY]
UNSIGNED, EDO PERIOD (17TH-18TH CENTURY)
The black lacquered basketwork ground decorated in takamaki-e, lead and raden with a heron standing in a stream amid iris, water hollyhock and reeds, the rims of the box and cover with karakusa in gold hiramaki-e over roiro, the interior with butterflies flying over pampas grass and the edges in fundame
27.3cm.
UNSIGNED, EDO PERIOD (17TH-18TH CENTURY)
The black lacquered basketwork ground decorated in takamaki-e, lead and raden with a heron standing in a stream amid iris, water hollyhock and reeds, the rims of the box and cover with karakusa in gold hiramaki-e over roiro, the interior with butterflies flying over pampas grass and the edges in fundame
27.3cm.
Literature
For a similar bunko, but without any decoration apart from the rims, see Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum, Lacquered furniture: Stationery (Tokyo, 1985).
The interior and rims are in the style of the studio of Hon'ami Koetsu, 1558-1637, and the decoration on the top of the cover may have been added in the 18th century, probably by Nagata Yuji; the interior of the cover of a suzuribako by Yuji is illustrated in Nihon no Shitsuge, Vol. IV; the work in the takamaki-e and the shell and lead inlays is very similar to the work on the present piece.
A similar box, from the period 1600-1615 is illustrated in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, East Asian Lacquer, The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, (New York, 1992).
The interior and rims are in the style of the studio of Hon'ami Koetsu, 1558-1637, and the decoration on the top of the cover may have been added in the 18th century, probably by Nagata Yuji; the interior of the cover of a suzuribako by Yuji is illustrated in Nihon no Shitsuge, Vol. IV; the work in the takamaki-e and the shell and lead inlays is very similar to the work on the present piece.
A similar box, from the period 1600-1615 is illustrated in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, East Asian Lacquer, The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, (New York, 1992).
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