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拍品专文
The market of musical boxes was dominated in the 19th and 20th century by Swiss made boxes. However, there was a select group of manufacturers, active in Prague and Vienna during the same period, who fashioned instruments which were uniquely Austrian in their construction and design.
The Japonist theme of this box shows the influence of Japanese art on Western art at the end of the 19th century after Japanese ports reopened to trade with the West in 1853, flooding Europe with their goods and culture. One such export were woodcut prints by masters of the ukiyo-e school, literally meaning ‘pictures of the floating world’, which depicted Kabuki theatre actors, landscapes, erotic scenes and many other aspects of Japanese culture and could be transposed in appealing decorative ways.
The Japonist theme of this box shows the influence of Japanese art on Western art at the end of the 19th century after Japanese ports reopened to trade with the West in 1853, flooding Europe with their goods and culture. One such export were woodcut prints by masters of the ukiyo-e school, literally meaning ‘pictures of the floating world’, which depicted Kabuki theatre actors, landscapes, erotic scenes and many other aspects of Japanese culture and could be transposed in appealing decorative ways.