A Lacquer Incense Container (Kogo)

EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY)

Details

A Lacquer Incense Container (Kogo)
Edo period (late 17th century)
The small box lacquered in gold takamaki-e and hiramaki-e, kirigane and mura-nashiji with a design of Uji Bridge with willow and pine trees, the sides of the baskets for stones rendered in aogai, the interior designed with chrysanthemums in hiramaki-e on a nashiji ground; pewter rims
2½ x 2½ x 1 3/8in. (6.7 x 6.7 x 3.3cm.)

Provenance

Charles A. Greenfield, New York

Exhibited

Japan House Gallery, New York, "The Magnificent Three: Lacquer, Netsuke and Tsuba, Selections from the Collection of Charles A. Greenfield," 1972, autumn

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, "Japanese Lacquer, 1600-1900, Selections from the Charles A. Greenfield Collection," 1980.9.4--10.19

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Harold P. Stern, The Magnificent Three: Lacquer, Netsuke and Tsuba, Selections from the Collection of Charles A. Greenfield, exh. cat., (New York: Japan Society, 1972), boxes no. 14.
Andrew J. Pekarik, Japanese Lacquer, 1600-1900, Selections from the Charles A. Greenfield Collection, exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Mueum of Art, 1980), fig. 32.

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