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A SUZURIBAKO (WRITING BOX) WITH SCENES FROM THE
OMI HAKKEI (EIGHT VIEWS OF LAKE BIWA)
Muromachi (1333-1573) or Momoyama period (1573-1615) 16th/
early 17th century
Elegantly rendered in gold hiramaki-e with an aerial view of the
geese at Katata, the Shinto shrine at Karasaki, the autumn moon
at Ishiyama, and other scenes on a dense gold nashiji ground
heightened in kirikane, the interior of the cover showing a lush garden
of willows, chrysanthemums and plum set over cranes in flight over
waves, fitted with an octagonal inkstone enclosing a design of a hare
and a copper water dropper in the form of a teapot, the stepped
base raised on four low feet and the lobed edges fitted in pewter
10 3/4 x 8 1/2 x 2 1/2in (26.7 x 21.6 x 6.3cm)

$3,500 - 4,500
Exhibited and Published
Edmund J. Lewis and Joe Earle, Shadows and Reflections: Japanese
Lacquer Art from the Collection of Edmund J. Lewis at the Honolulu
Academy of Arts, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1996, cat. no.1

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. no.3

515
A LACQUER KORO (INCENSE BURNER) AND COVER
Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century
Of cylindrical form decorated with a waterfall rushing over rocks and
pine trees to a river below in gold, silver and black takamaki-e and
hiramaki-e with embellishments of kirikane and hirame, the interior
with a silver liner 515
3in (7.5cm) high

$1,500 - 2,000
Provenance
Previously sold, these Rooms, March 19, 2013, lot 2294
Sotheby’s, London, November 15, 2001, lot 259

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