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3116 3117 (interior)
A WOVEN LACQUER SUZURIBAKO
(WRITING BOX) FINE JAPANESE WORKS OF ART | 73
Edo period/Meiji era (19th century)
The Rinpa-inspired cover of rounded
rectangular shape and designed in gold
takamaki-e with inlay of pewter and
mother-of-pearl with stylized flowering
chrysanthemum bushes and textured gray-
hued ground silhouetted against a lacquered
basketwork ground, the interiors covered
in thick reddish-brown lacquer repeated on
the removable wooden insert centered by a
circular ink stone with gold fundame edges
With a wood storage box
2 1/4 x 10 x 7 5/8in (5 x 25.1 x 19.4cm)
$1,500 - 2,000

OTHER PROPERTIES

3117
A SMALL LACQUER SUZURIBAKO
(WRITING BOX)
Edo period (early 19th century)
Designed as a bound album, the cover
decorated with a stand of blossoming
flowers and a cricket before a bamboo fence
below clouds, the binding with stitching and
geometric designs, all in gold, silver and black
takamaki-e and hiramaki-e on a nashiji ground
with gold leaf and hirame embellishments, the
underside of the cover lacquered in similar
techniques with a scene of courtiers on a
veranda by a garden lake, removable inner
trays kinji and fitted with a shakudo and gold
suiteki (water-dropper) formed as a printed
book, the ink stone with fundame edges
7 7/8 x 6 ¾ x 1 1/4in (20 x 17.1 x 3.3cm)
$4,000 - 5,000