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A cinnabar lacquer
76 | BONHAMS scholar’s cabinet
19th century
Displaying double doors on the upper and
lower sections carved with beauties and
sages in an elaborate garden complex
framed by distant peaks and waterways, the
scenes enclosed by key-fret borders and all
set over a single drawer carved en suite, the
top, side panels and lower apron decorated
with a dense floral diaper pattern, the lower
doors opening to reveal paired drawers, gilt
metal hinges.
23 3/4 x 13 3/4 x 6 1/4in (60.4 x 35 x
15.8cm)
$5,000 - 7,000

7117
A tianqi lacquer rectangular
covered box
18th/19th century
The cover top engraved with four dragons
surrounding an oval cartouche, the sides of
the box and cover banded with rows of key
frets above an intricately incised wanzi diaper
pattern, the designs picked out in iron red,
puce and black on the coffee colored ground,
the base finished in black lacquer coating and
the interior surfaces with a rust-brown layer.
5 1/8 x 13 3/4 x 7in (13 x 35 x 17.8cm)
$2,000 - 3,000

Property from
a Japanese Collection

7118
A painted lacquer document box
17th/18th century
Of rectangular form, the cover and sides
crisply painted in gilt with delicate scenes of
birds and branches within double line borders,
all on a brown lacquer ground, with metal
bail handles and a large lock mechanism, the
interior fitted with a floating tray, the interior of
the cover inscribed in gilt with a running script
calligraphy passage.
5 1/2 x 15 1/2 x 7 1/2in (14 x 39.4 x 19cm)
$5,000 - 7,000

Provenance
ex-collection of the Itohara family
(associated with The Itohara Memorial, a
designated tangible cultural property of
Japan, 856 Otani, Okuizumo-cho, Nita
District, Shimane Prefecture)

Published
Toma Kyo, Kakushiki to dento: Izumo no
gohonjin (Social Status and Tradition: Gohojin
of Izumo), Izumo, 2009, p. 43. (fig.1)