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EDO PERIOD, LATE 18TH/19TH CENTURY
Details
A lacquer suzuribako (writing box)
Edo period, late 18th/19th Century
Of rectantular shape with rounded corners, the nashiji ground decorated in hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, and hirame and inlaid with silver metal, the top with a waterfall cascading between rocks, the inner lid with the two rocks of Futami-ga-ura against a large full moon, fitted with a tray around the slate inkstone and with a silver 'peony' water dropper, small damage to corner
25.5 x 23 cm.
Edo period, late 18th/19th Century
Of rectantular shape with rounded corners, the nashiji ground decorated in hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, and hirame and inlaid with silver metal, the top with a waterfall cascading between rocks, the inner lid with the two rocks of Futami-ga-ura against a large full moon, fitted with a tray around the slate inkstone and with a silver 'peony' water dropper, small damage to corner
25.5 x 23 cm.
Provenance
Major General Baron H. van Hemert tot Dingshof
and thence by descent
and thence by descent
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