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AN INLAID BLACK-LACQUER TEDORIBON (TRAY) A BLACK-LACQUER SUZURIBAKO (BOX FOR WRITING
Attributed to Nobara Teimei, Meiji (1868-1912) UTENSILS) WITH INTEGRAL FUBAKO (DOCUMENT BOX )
or Taisho (1912-1926) era, late 19th/early 20th century Taisho era (1912-1926), early 20th century
Decorated with branches of white plum blossoms issuing from a rock, Of deep rectangular form, decorated on the roiro ground with a large
all inlaid in low relief of shell reserved on wood entirely covered in black pine tree in gold togidashi, the interior lacquered with a prunus tree
lacquer, the rounded sides applied with shell, the front signed with a on a mura-nashiji ground and containing a tray fitted with a suzuri
red seal possibly reading Ko and on the reverse with red seal Teimei; (inkstone) and mizuire (water-dropper), unsigned;
with a wood storage box, the inside of the lid inscribed with the title with a wood storage box.
and the name of the artist. 6.4cm x 33.2cm x 9.8cm (2½in x 13 1/8in x 3 7/8in). (7).
3cm x 45.6cm x 35.7cm (1 3/16in x 17 7/8in x 14in). (2).
£1,500 - 1,800
£1,500 - 2,000 JPY210,000 - 250,000
JPY210,000 - 280,000 US$1,900 - 2,200
US$1,900 - 2,500
Illustrated on page 160.
Few signed works by Nobara Teimei are known, but for a miniature
double-sided six-panel screen by Nobara Teimei that won a Hojo Itto
(First-Class Honourable Mention) at the 1899 spring exhibition of the
Nihon Bijutsu Kyokai (Japan Art Association), see Fujisawa Shigeru,
Chogan (Carving and Inlay), Tokyo, Gallery Chikuryudo, 2014, cat.
no.1; another piece by this artist was sold in these rooms,
12 May 2016, lot 595.

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