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A NEGORO-STYLE CIRCULAR TRAY
3086 Muromachi period (16th century)
Of carved and assembled wood, the interior
3087 of black lacquer and encircled by a red-
lacquered lobed rim flaring to a raised rim
band with traces of black lacquer and gilt,
the exterior sides also lacquered red above a
black-lacquer band encircling the foot rim, the
underside lacquered black
With a wooden storage box
12 1/2in (31.8cm) diameter
$3,000 - 4,000

3086
A NEGORO-STYLE LACQUER TARAI
(WASH BASIN)
Momoyama/Edo period (17th century)
Of carved and assembled wood, the
exterior with slightly everted sides and
raised on three shaped bracket feet, the
interior and supports lacquered red, the
sides with a middle band of clear-lacquered
keyaki wood set between bands of red
lacquer and two raised circumferential rings
picked out in black lacquer, the base also
lacquered black and inscribed with two
characters dai (large) and ju (ten)
4 7/8in (12.3cm) high; 12 1/2in (31.8cm) diameter
$4,000 - 6,000

Similar Negoro-lacquer wash basins with legs
and exposed keyaki (Zelkova serrata) wood
are in the collections of The University Art
Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, the
Miho Museum, and the Minneapolis Institute
of Arts (donated by the Mary and Jackson
Burke Foundation in 2015). The first two
are illustrated in Miho Museum and Kyoto
Shinbun, Negoro: Efflorescence of Medieval
Japanese Lacquerware, Kyoto, 2013, p. 220,
pls. 229 and 230.

3087
A NEGORO HASSOKU-TYPE LACQUER
TABLE WITH SHELL INLAY
Muromachi period (16th century)
The rectangular top within raised borders
and applied with red lacquer worn in places
revealing the black lacquer undercoat, raised
on two banks of four “dog-leg” supports
attached at the base to straight stretchers,
the side edges, top of the stretchers and
each of the legs inlaid in mother-of-pearl with
stylized blossoms reserved on a black-lacquer
ground, with gilt-metal floral etched fittings
13 3/8 x 30 x 15 1/8in (34 x 76.3 x 38.6cm)
$5,000 - 7,000

A similar table in the collection of the Kasuga
Taisha, Nara, is illustrated in Miho Museum
and Kyoto Shinbun, Negoro: Efflorescence
of Medieval Japanese Lacquerware, Kyoto,
2013, pl. 058.

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