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160 | BONHAMS A BLACK-LACQUER KODANSU
(SMALL CABINET)
Edo period (1615-1868), 18th century
Of standard form, containing three drawers
and with a hinged door fitted with a lock, the
black-lacquer ground decorated with tessen
(clematis) flowers, leaves, and tendrils in gold
hiramaki-e with details in e-nashiji, the base
and internal surfaces black lacquer, the top
edges of the drawers gold lacquer, the gilt-
metal fittings chased with floral and geometric
designs within a diagonal lattice, unsigned;
with a wood storage box.
15.2cm x 23.9cm x 14.5cm
(6in x 9 3/8in x 5¾in). (2).

£800 - 1,200
JPY110,000 - 170,000
US$990 - 1,500

The design is executed in a late version of the
so-called Kodaiji maki-e style which flourished
from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth
century, but using more conventional and
painstaking lacquering techniques, pointing to
a mid-Edo-period date.

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.