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VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A Lacquer Writing Box (Suzuribako)
EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)
Details
A Lacquer Writing Box (Suzuribako)
Edo period (19th century)
Rectangular, designed in gold, silver, black and red takamaki-e with kirigane and nashiji highlights with a rooster and hen on the exterior against a roiro-nuri ground, the underside of the cover and the interior of the box decorated with autumn plants and rocks by a stream and moon and clouds, interior fitted with a removable tray, metal Chinese-lion water dropper and rectangular ink stone, interior ground nashiji, fundame edges
9 x 8 3/8 x 1¾in. (22.9 x 21,3 x 4.5cm.)
Edo period (19th century)
Rectangular, designed in gold, silver, black and red takamaki-e with kirigane and nashiji highlights with a rooster and hen on the exterior against a roiro-nuri ground, the underside of the cover and the interior of the box decorated with autumn plants and rocks by a stream and moon and clouds, interior fitted with a removable tray, metal Chinese-lion water dropper and rectangular ink stone, interior ground nashiji, fundame edges
9 x 8 3/8 x 1¾in. (22.9 x 21,3 x 4.5cm.)