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(interior view)

588
A CIRCULAR SUZURIBAKO (WRITING
BOX)
Meiji (1868-1912) or Taisho (1912-1926)
era, late 19th/early 20th century
Lacquered in gold togidashi maki-e,
takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, appied gold foil
and kirikane, hirame and mura-nashiji,
decorated on the cover with a view of
Mount Horai in the moonlight with pavilions
nestled among pine, plum and bamboo, the
moon inlaid in silvered metal, all against a
background of roiro-nuri, the interior of the
box decorated with a continuation of the
landscape above combed waves, fitted in
the lower interior with a rectangular inkstone
with fundame edges, a silver and soft-metal 588
water dropper in the shape of a flying crane,
and two brushes, a paper knife and a paper-
pricker in matching roiro-nuri and mura-
nashiji cases, the rims silver
With a wood tomobako storage box
9 5/8in (24.4cm) diameter

$6,000 - 8,000
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. 78
589
A FINE GOLD FIGURE OF AN ASCETIC
Taisho era (1912-1926), circa 1920
The hollow cast figure shown seated holding
a fly whisk on a separately worked silvered
copper bed of leaves and enclosed in a finely
cast bronze grotto inlaid with gold takazogan
highlights
2 1/2in (6.4cm) high
$3,000 - 5,000

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