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A GOLD-LACQUER KOBAKO TWO CHAIRE (TEA CADDY) A LACQUERED-WOOD CYLINDRICAL
(SMALL BOX) AND COVER IN THE FORM AND ONE KOGO (INCENSE BOX) ZANSAI-SAGE (BOX FOR LEFTOVERS)
OF A CORMORANT ON A BOAT Edo period (1615-1868) or By Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891),
Meiji era (1868-1912), Meiji era (1868-1912), Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th century
late 19th/early 20th century mid/late 19th century The wood body unadorned and lacquered
The bird applied in high relief of lacquered Comprising one cylindrical chaire with inrobuta entirely in dark green-brown seido-nuri
wood, perched atop the elaborate straw (flush-fitting lid) decorated in gold and iro-e (lacquer finish imitating antique bronze), with
covered roof of a fishing boat lacquered in takamaki-e, hiramaki-e and togidashi maki-e a natural wood cover; signed on the base in
gold hiramaki-e and takamaki-e, unsigned; with an all-over design of butterflies, unsigned, subori characters Zeshin.
with a wooden storage box with a paper slip 7cm (2¾in) high; the second a stoneware 6.2cm x 9cm (2 7/16in x 3½in). (2).
inscribed Tomabune ni u kogo (an incense box tea caddy with a dripped blue glaze on the
of a cormorant on a thatched boat). shoulder with a lid, 6.5cm (2½in) high; the £4,000 - 5,000
5.1cm x 11.5cm (2in x 4½in). (3). spherical black-lacquer kogo decorated JPY600,000 - 760,000
in gold and silver hiramaki-e with ivy and US$5,700 - 7,100
£800 - 1,000 trailing vine, the interior of polished black
JPY120,000 - 150,000 lacquer, unsigned, 3.9cm (1½in) high; with an
US$1,100 - 1,400 unrelated rectangular black-lacquer storage
box, 12cm x 17.2cm x 10.1cm
(4¾in x 6¾in x 4in). (8).
£1,500 - 1,800
JPY230,000 - 270,000
US$2,100 - 2,500

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