A lacquer document box (bunko)

TAISHO PERIOD (EARLY 20TH CENTURY), BY KIMURA HIDEO (1877-1944)

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A lacquer document box (bunko)
Taisho period (Early 20th century), by Kimura Hideo (1877-1944)
Rectangular with canted corners, decorated in gold and black hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, togidashi and inlaid mother-of-pearl with a central nashiji band with two lozenges of Karyobinga (Kalavinka) playing musical instruments and adorned with paulownia, which repeat in formal triangles, on a black ground, the faceted nashiji rims decorated with mother-of-pearl flowers on gold-lacquer stems, the underside of the lid decorated in gold togidashi with stylized flowers and butterflies on a roiro and nashiji ground, fitted with two silver cord rings cast as chrysanthemums, rims silver
15½ x 12¼ x 5in. (39.4 x 31.1 x 12.7cm.)
With original wood box, signed Hideo saku (made by Hideo) and sealed Hideo and inscribed Tenpyo mon'yo tebunko (document box with designs of the Tenpyo era [729-49])

Lot Essay

Kimura Hideo, a Kyoto lacquer artist trained by Tojima Shinjiro, had twenty-five pupils. Beginning in the late 19th century, Kimura participated in a variety of national exhibitions, earning a 5th place at an exhibition in the Kansai area in 1897 and another prize in 1909. He exhibited in the 5th National Industrial Exhibition, Osaka, 1903, the Hyobikai in 1912 and the Shin-kobijutsu in 1908-11 and 1913. He won a third prize at a Kyoto lacquer competition in 1922.

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