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OGAWA SHOMIN (1847-1891)
A lacquer kogo (incense container)
Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th century
The small box with a slightly domed cover,
decorated in gold takamaki-e and inlaid
mother-of-pearl with the medieval motif of
katawaguruma (carriage wheels in waves)
With a wood tomobako storage box
2 3/8 x 2 3/8 x 1 7/8in (6 x 6 x 4.7cm)
$2,000 - 3,000
Provenance
Previously sold, Christie’s, New York, March
19, 1997, lot 101
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A MINIATURE GOLD LACQUER
SUZURIBAKO (WRITING BOX) WITH
A SUZURIBAKO AND RYOSHIBAKO
513 (DOCUMENT BOX) SET
Edo period (1615-1868) to Meiji era (1868-
1912), 19th century
The first writing box elegantly rendered
in gold takamaki-e alternating with silver
hiramaki-e kiri (paulownia) leaves on a fine
nashiji ground with an interior showing
hillsides set off by pines and flowers in gold
takamaki-e and kirikane, a shakudo and
silver scroll-form water dropper; the second
a miniature set of suzuribako and ryoshibako
depicting the poets Abbot Sojo Henjo and
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro rendered on a
dense nashiji ground
3 3/4 x 3 1/4 x 3/4in (9.5 x 8.5 x 2cm);
(3 1/8 x 2 5/8 x 5/8in (7.8 x 6.8 x 1.7cm)

$2,000 - 3,000
Published
Stephen Little and Edmund J. Lewis, View
of the Pinnacle: Japanese Lacquer Writing
Boxes: The Lewis Collection of Suzuribako,
Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2011,
cat. nos. 24 and 25

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