A Lacquer Incense Container (Kogo)

EDO PERIOD (18TH-19TH CENTURY)

Details

A Lacquer Incense Container (Kogo)
Edo period (18th-19th century)
Circular, designed in black, red, green and yellow lacquer carved in guri technique with formal scroll surrounding a central plum blossom, the interior black lacquer with a contrived crackle finish
3in. (7.7cm.) diameter

Provenance

Charles A. Greenfield, New York

Exhibited

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, "Japanese Lacquer, 1600-1900, Selections from the Charles A. Greenfield Collection," 1980.9.4--10.19

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Andrew J. Pekarik, Japanese Lacquer, 1600-1900, Selections from the Charles A. Greenfield Collection, exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980), fig. 139.

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