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A MATCHING SUZURIBAKO (WRITING
BOX) AND BUNKO (DOCUMENT BOX)
Edo period (1615-1868), 17th/18th century
Lacquered in gold takamaki-e and hiramaki-e
and embellished with inlays of silver, pewter
and iridescent shell against a brown-lacquer
ground with hirame and nashiji highlights,
each box of rounded rectangular form with
a flat cover, the writing box decorated with
plovers in flight and on a rocky shoreline,
the sails of ships visible in the distance
through low-hanging clouds, the underside
of the cover with a thatched cottage under
pine trees by a brush fence and autumn
grasses strewn with cobwebs, the box fitted
with a removable tray for holding tools and
supporting a rectangular ink stone lacquered
on the sides in fundame, and a circular gilt-
copper waterdropper, the tray decorated
with ferns and bush clover; the writing box
decorated on the cover with a writing table
supporting a writing box, brush, and albums
beneath a pine tree on a rocky shore, plovers
in flight overhead, the underside of the cover
decorated with a continuation of the design
with an ivy-covered pine tree on a sandy
shoreline and plovers in flight beneath a full
moon among rolling clouds, pewter rims
Writing box 9 3/4 x 8 7/8 x 2 1/8in (24.8 x
22.5 x 5.3cm); document box 15 x 12 x 5in
(38.1 x 30.5 x 12.7cm)

US$25,000 - 35,000
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