A LARGE LACQUER PICNIC SET (SAGE-JUBAKO)

A LARGE LACQUER PICNIC SET (SAGE-JUBAKO)
(20th century)
The frame constructed in the outline of a folding fan, the flat top of the frame a removable, bracket-leg table with a square, sunken, metal-lined censer for burning incense and with a sunken, diamond-shaped incense container, each with a flat lid of gold-lacquered wood; when the table is removed there is a shelf for other accoutrements; the set also containing a poem-card shaped four-tier food box (jubako) set on a removable footed tray of the same shape and two aluminum, stoppered sake bottles of double-gourd form set on triangular, footed bases which are also removable, each sealed on base; designed overall in gold and red hiramaki-e, low-relief takamaki-e, kirigane and hirame with poem cards, plants, plovers and waves, the undersides and interiors of containers red lacquer
21 x 9 x 15.3/8in. (53.3 x 24.2 x 39cm.)