Edo period (18th-19th century)

Details

A Lacquer Kogo [Incense Box]
Edo period (18th-19th century)
The rectangular box with rounded corners and flush-fitting cover in the form of a box tied inside a folded furoshiki [Japanese wrapping cloth], decorated in gold hiramaki-e and a greenish-black lacquer togidashi on a nashiji ground, depicting cherry blossoms and maple leaves, nashiji interior, fundame rims
7.6cm. long

Provenance

Eskenazi, London

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Lot Essay

For another example of a box with a furoshiki design in the Burghley House Collection, Stamford, England, see:
Kyoto National Museum ed., Japan makie – kyuden wo kazaru toyo no kirameki – [Export Lacquer: Refection of the West in Black and Gold Makie], (Osaka, 2008), cat. 206

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