A Small Lacquer Incense Container (Kogo) and Two Lacquer Boxes and Covers (Kobako)

EDO AND MEIJI PERIOD (17TH AND LATE 19TH CENTURY)

Details

A Small Lacquer Incense Container (Kogo) and Two Lacquer Boxes and Covers (Kobako)
Edo and Meiji period (17th and late 19th century)
The first rectangular with rounded edges and designed with two cormorants in black takamaki-e, gold hiramaki-e and hirame against a nashiji ground, the interior nashiji, the rims pewter; the second designed as a knotted paper slip decorated with maple leaves on a stream, roundels of birds, floral scroll, cherry blossoms and floral latticework in red, gold and silver hiramaki-e on a roiro, kinji or hirame ground, the interior mura-nashiji on a black-lacquer ground; the third rectangular with lobed corners and rounded edges designed with a landscape with a central raised panel decorated with Genji crests for Chapters 2 and 12 of the Tale of Genji in gold and silver hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, gyobu-nashiji, hirame and togidashi, the interior with plovers against a nashiji ground
1 3/8 x 1¾ x ¾in. (3.5 x 4.6 x 1.8cm.); 4¼in. (10.9cm.) wide; 3 x 3½ x 1 3/8in. (7.6 x 8.8 x 3.5cm.) (3)

Provenance

The incense container, Charles A. Greenfield, New York

Exhibited

Japan House Gallery, New York, "The Magnificent Three: Lacquer, Netsuke and Tsuba, Selections from the Collection of Charles A. Greenfield," 1972, autumn (the incense container only)

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

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. 14 (the incense container only).

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