Page 130 - Bonhams Chinese & Asian Works of Art Los Angelis December 14 2020

286
A LACQUER SUZURIBAKO (WRITING BOX)
Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century
Rectangular with lobed corners and decorated in red
and black lacquer in tsuishu style with a scholar and
his attendant beneath a pine tree under a full moon,
the details carved in low relief on a red ground carved
with three registers of geometric patterns representing
the starry sky, rough seas, and rolling waves, all in
finely incised lines, the borders pierce carved with
scrolling vines and auspicious emblems, revealing
the red ground beneath, the underside of the cover
decorated with a phoenix in flight above a paulownia
tree in chinkin-bori on a glossy black ground, the
interior of the box fitted with a rectangular inkstone and
a brass water dropper cast as a shishi
11 x 8 3/8 x 2in (28 x 21.3 x 5cm)
$1,500 - 2,500

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. 61

286

287
A SHELL-INLAID LACQUER SUZURIBAKO
(WRITING BOX)
Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century
Rectangular with rounded edges and set on a low
rectangular foot decorated with inlaid mother-of-pearl
on a black-lacquer ground, the cover with a central
panel containing a temple pavilion in a landscape,
the surounding areas with chrysanthemums and
vines against a ground of floral lozenges, the red-
lacquer interior fitted with an inkstone and a silvered
water dropper, the gilt-metal top pierced with
chrysanthemums and leaves
10 5/8 x 7 x 2 3/4in (26.9 x 17.7 x 6.9cm)
$2,000 - 3,000

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. 57

287

128 | B O N H A M S
128 | BONHAMS