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SCHOOL OF OGATA KORIN, EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY)
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A suzuribako [writing box]
School of Ogata Korin, Edo Period (17th century)
The rectangular box and flush-fitting cover decorated in gold hiramaki-e and inlaid in lead and mother-of-pearl on a black ground, with a stag among grasses, the interior with an inner tray decorated with maples and inset with a lacquered copper water dropper, the interior of the cover with a poem (see below) in gold hiramaki-e, fundame-rimmed slate inkstone, the deep box beneath in black lacquer, fundame and lead rims
Treading the fallen leaves
Okuyama ni koba tobu in the deep mountains
naku Shika no koe kiku toki zo the crying of the deer
Aki wa kanashiki sadness of Autumn
32cm. long
School of Ogata Korin, Edo Period (17th century)
The rectangular box and flush-fitting cover decorated in gold hiramaki-e and inlaid in lead and mother-of-pearl on a black ground, with a stag among grasses, the interior with an inner tray decorated with maples and inset with a lacquered copper water dropper, the interior of the cover with a poem (see below) in gold hiramaki-e, fundame-rimmed slate inkstone, the deep box beneath in black lacquer, fundame and lead rims
Treading the fallen leaves
Okuyama ni koba tobu in the deep mountains
naku Shika no koe kiku toki zo the crying of the deer
Aki wa kanashiki sadness of Autumn
32cm. long
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