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526
SHUNSHO (ACTIVE EARLY 20TH CENTURY)
An inlaid lacquer suzuribako (writing box)
Taisho (1912-1926) or Showa (1926-1989) era, early 20th century
The rounded rectangular box decorated in gold and
black takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, togidashi maki-e, kinpun, inlaid mother-
of pearl and simulated pewter with a scene of the Noda River with a
willow tree and jakago (gabions), the interior decorated with plovers
in flight against a night sky, with a removable tray fitted with a silver
water dropper formed as a plum floret with a nanako finish, set in a
gilt-silver saucer and an inkstone set in a silver frame, signed on the
underside of the cover Shunsho and sealed Shunsho
With a wood tomobako storage box
8 x 6 3/4 x 1 1/8in (20 x 17 x 3cm)
$3,500 - 4,500

Provenance
Previously sold, Christie’s, New York, September 17, 1997, lot 234
527
A FINE LACQUER SUZURIBAKO (WRITING BOX)
Meiji (1868-1912) or Taisho (1912-1926) era, late 19th/early 20th
century
The shallow, rectangular box decorated in gold and silver togidashi
527 maki-e, hiramaki-e, hirame and nashiji with a tangled spiderweb on
blossoming autumn grasses and flowers, the character kumo (spider)
at the center, the interior decorated in nashiji and fitted with a circular
inkstone and rectangular silver water dropper set into a rectangular
saucer
6 7/8 x 6 1/4 x 1 1/8in (17.5 x 16 x 3cm)

$5,000-7,000
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. no.56

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