拍品專文
Similar cabinets are in the Royal Danish Collection, see Martha Boyer, Japanese Export Lacquers from the Seventeenth Century in the National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, 1959.
Towards the end of the 17th century the rich shell-inlaid coffers of
the Momoyama period were gradually replaced by a more restrained and
elegant style with carefully placed gold lacquer decoration on a plain black lacquer ground. The demands of the Dutch, who exported lacquer
chests, coffers and panels, together with much porcelain, from their
trading station at Nagasaki, meant that much of the lacquer had to be
produced to a fixed price and time; as a result, their thin coats of
black lacquer often became grey and oxidised after years of exposure to sunlight, and were sometimes "refreshed" by a western Japanner using a shellac-based "lacquer".
The cabinets became very fashionable in Europe and were sold through Merchants Merciers as illustrated on the next page, in the trade card of Gersaint, circa 1740.
Towards the end of the 17th century the rich shell-inlaid coffers of
the Momoyama period were gradually replaced by a more restrained and
elegant style with carefully placed gold lacquer decoration on a plain black lacquer ground. The demands of the Dutch, who exported lacquer
chests, coffers and panels, together with much porcelain, from their
trading station at Nagasaki, meant that much of the lacquer had to be
produced to a fixed price and time; as a result, their thin coats of
black lacquer often became grey and oxidised after years of exposure to sunlight, and were sometimes "refreshed" by a western Japanner using a shellac-based "lacquer".
The cabinets became very fashionable in Europe and were sold through Merchants Merciers as illustrated on the next page, in the trade card of Gersaint, circa 1740.