A Small Suzuribako

MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)

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A Small Suzuribako
Meiji Period (Late 19th Century)
The cover decorated in togidashi with fuyo and ominaeshi on a sparse black and e-nashiji ground, under an inlaid silver moon, the interior with hagi and wadeshiko on the shore in gold and silver hiramakie, takamakie, usu-niku takamakie and kirikane beside a togidashi stream, the silver mizure in the form of a butterfly, silver rims
5.15/16 x 1 x 66in. (15.1 x 2.5 x 16.7cm.)

Lot Essay

This is one of a group of especially finely decorated small writing boxes with heart-shaped inkstones apparently made around the turn of the Edo (1615-1868) and Meiji (1868-1912) periods. Other examples include one by Nakayama Komin (1808-1870) depicting the Ogurayama theme (see 1 below) and an unsigned example in the Victoria and Albert Museum depicting a Chinese table (see 2 below).

1 MOA Museum of Art, Kindai Nihon no shikkogei [Japanese lacquer art of recent times],(Atami, 1983), no. 4

2 Earle, Joe (ed.), The Toshiba Gallery: Japanese Art and Design
[in the Victoria and Albert Museum], (London, 1986), no. 41

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