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L A C Q U E R • J A D E • B R O N Z E • I N K T H E R V I N G C O L L E C T I O N 髹金飾玉 - 歐雲伉儷珍藏

1151 A SET OF WRITING TABLE (BUNDAI), WRITING BOX
(SUZURIBAKO) AND PAPER BOX (FUBAKO)
SCHOOL OF SHIBATA ZESHIN (1807-1891), JAPAN, MEIJI PERIOD,
LATE 19TH CENTURY

Each executed in red, black and silver lacquer to simulate bamboo and PROVENANCE
applied with ants of black lacquer on the table, a cricket of black lacquer on Ellsworth & Goldie (according to label).
the writing box and two snails on the paper box, the underside of the table The Pan-Asian Collection (Christian Humann, d. 1981), New York
and the interiors of both boxes in gyobu nashiji, each piece inscribed Zeshin (according to label).
Writing table 4æ in. (12 cm.) high, 23º in. (59 cm.) wide, The Irving Collection, no. 1878.
13º in. (33.6 cm.) deep EXHIBITED
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, East Asian Lacquer: The Florence
Writing box 9 in. (22.9 cm.) long
and Herbert Irving Collection, 22 November 1991- 23 February 1992.
Paper box 15√ in. (40.3 cm.) long (3)
LITERATURE
$30,000-50,000
James C. Y. Watt and Barbara Brennan Ford, East Asian Lacquer: The Florence
and Herbert Irving Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
1991, no. 143, p. 282-83.
日本 明治時代十九世紀晚期 柴田是真派 竹節式漆文箱、硯箱及文臺一組

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