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A NEGORO LACQUER INKSTONE CASE
Muromachi period (1333-1573), 16th century
The case with a circular compartment for an inkstone and a
rectangular tray for a writing brush, decorated in typical Negoro
style in red lacquer, the black-lacquer undercoat showing through
in places
With a wood tomobako storage box
9 1/2in (24.1cm) wide

$800 - 1,200
Published
Stephen Little and Edmund J. Lewis, View of the Pinnacle:
Japanese Lacquer Writing Boxes: The Lewis Collection of
Suzuribako, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2011, cat. no. 2
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A LACQUER SUZURIBAKO (WRITING BOX)
275 Edo period (1615-1868), 17th/18th century
The rounded rectangular writing box decorated in gold takamaki-e
and gold, black, and red hiramaki-e with highlights of hirame and
kinpun with Choryo (Zhang Liang) being lifted from the waters by
a dragon after he had jumped in the river to retrieve Kosekiko’s
(Huangshigong’s) shoe, the underside of the cover with a rocky
landscape with farmers and a distant pavilion, and a Tokugawa
family crest, the interior of the box decorated with a mandarin
duck beneath a pine tree and a waterfall, fitted with a rectangular
inkstone and a gilt-metal water dropper formed as a leafy gourd,
the rims pewter
With a wood tomobako storage box
8 x 7 1/2 x 1 1/4in (20.3 x 19 x 3.1cm)
$3,000 - 4,000

Published
Edmund J. Lewis and Joe Earle, Shadows and Reflections:
Japanese Lacquer Art from the Collection of Edmund J. Lewis at
the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1996,
cat. no. 6, pg. 146

Stephen Little and Edmund J. Lewis, View of the Pinnacle:
Japanese Lacquer Writing Boxes: The Lewis Collection of
Suzuribako, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2011, cat. no. 60

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