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A NEGORO RED-LACQUER AND A NEGORO RED- AND BLACK-LACQUER A NEGORO RED- AND BLACK-LACQUER
EXPOSED WOOD YUTO HEISHI (RITUAL SAKE BOTTLE) HEISHI (RITUAL SAKE BOTTLE)
(EWER FOR HOT WATER) Muromachi (1333-1573) or Momoyama Muromachi (1333-1573) or Momoyama
Muromachi (1333-1573), Momoyama (1573- (1573-1615) period, 16th century (1573-1615) period, 16th century
1615) or Edo period (1615-1868), A turned-wood heishi (ritual sake bottle) of A turned-wood heishi of standard Negoro-
16th/17th century standard Negoro-lacquer form, painted in red lacquer form, painted in red lacquer on a
The rounded rectangular spouted vessel lacquer on a black-lacquer ground with two black-lacquer ground which shows through in
resting on a base with scalloped feet, the cranes, pine and bamboo, and with smaller places; with a wooden storage box. 30.6cm
recessed bands at the top, shoulder and plants around the foot; with an inscribed (12in) high, internal cavity: 15.5cm (6 1/8in)
bottom setting off the natural grain of the wide wooden storage box. 41.5cm (16¼in) high, deep. (2).
band of keyaki wood around the middle left internal cavity 20.7cm (8¼in) deep. (2).
uncoloured, with an elegant curving spout and £5,000 - 6,000
large trilobate handle; with a wooden storage £2,000 - 3,000 JPY740,000 - 890,000
box with an inscribed paper label Muromachi JPY300,000 - 450,000 US$6,600 - 7,900
Negoro suichu (Negoro ewer made in the US$2,600 - 4,000
Muromachi period). 30cm (11¾in) high. (3). For a similar example, compare Miho
For a similar example (possibly the pair to the Museum, Shu-urushi ‘Negoro’ chusei ni saita
£2,500 - 3,000 present lot), see Tokyo Bijutsu Kurabu (Tokyo hana (Negoro: Efflorescence of Medieval
JPY370,000 - 450,000 Art Club) Yamamura Koka gahaku shozohin Japanese Lacquerware), exhibition catalogue,
US$3,300 - 4,000 nyusatsu (Auction catalogue of the collection 1 September-15 December 2013, cat. no.009.
of painter Yamamura Koka), 17 December
Compare with an almost identical ewer in the 1940, lot 110.
Hosomi Museum, illustrated and published
by the Miho Museum, Shu-urushi ‘Negoro’
chusei ni saita hana (Negoro: Efflorescence of
Medieval Japanese Lacquerware), exhibition
catalogue, 1 September-15 December 2013,
p.240, cat. no.251.

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