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ATTRIBUTED TO HEIAN ZOHIKO (EARLY 20TH CENTURY) Provenance
An inlaid lacquer kakesuzuribako (stacking writing box and Previously sold, Christie’s, New York, March 19, 1997, lot 224
stationery box)
Taisho (1912-1926) or Showa (1926-1989) era, early 20th century Published
The rectangular box with rounded corners and arranged in two tiers, Stephen Little and Edmund J. Lewis, View of the Pinnacle: Japanese
the writing box supported by the deeper stationery box, decorated Lacquer Writing Boxes: The Lewis Collection of Suzuribako,
overall in Rinpa style with inlaid mother-of-pearl and simulated pewter Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2011, cat. no.41
and gold hiramaki-e on a roiro-nuri ground with a continuous scene
of an eightfold bridge extending over dense clusters of blossoming This box is a faithful copy of the Yatsuhashi writing box by Ogata
irises, the interior of the writing box finished in gold kinji lacquer and Korin (1658-1716), now in the collection of Tokyo National Museum.
fitted with an inkstone with fundame edges and a rectangular silver
water dropper finished in ishime, stamped Jungin (Pure silver), the
interior of the stationery box decorated with rolling waves in gold
hiramaki-e
With a wood tomobako storage box
10 7/8 x 7 3/4 x 5 1/4in (27.5 x 20 x 14.5cm)
$10,000 - 15,000

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