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IIZUKA TOYO (KANSHOSAI) LINEAGE
A Gold and Black-Lacquer Bundai (Writing
Desk), Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century
The bundai of standard form with fudegaeshi
(raised sections to left and right), decorated
in gold and silver takamaki-e and gold
togidashi maki-e and e-nashiji with a night
scene depicting a flock of chidori (plovers or
dotterels) flying over pine and millet along the
bay of Wakanoura, applied with silver engraved
mounts, the scalloped inner edges of silver, the
outer sides of the two front legs embellished
in gold takamaki-e with millet stalks, signed
on the lower left in gold lacquer Kanshosai
with a kao; with a wood storage box inscribed
Waka no ura on-bundai and with a paper slip
inscribed Hachisuga-ke maki-e shi, Iizuka
Kanshosai tsukuru (made by Iizuka Kanshosai,
maki-e craftsman for the Hachisuga Family).
12.5cm x 59cm x 33.8cm
(4 7/8in x 23 2/8in x 13 3/8in). (2).
£4,000 - 5,000
JPY780,000 - 970,000
US$5,200 - 6,500
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AN INLAID GOLD-LACQUER TEBAKO
(ACCESSORY BOX)
Edo period (1615-1868),
late 18th/early 19th century
Of rectangular, deep form with rounded
corners and an inrobuta (flush-fitting lid),
the exterior of the lid decorated in gold and
silver hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, and togidashi
86 maki-e, inlaid silver and gilt metal, with details
highlighted in gold okibirame mosaic against
a background of dense gold nashiji, depicting
images associated with Chapter 23, Hatsune
(The First Song of Spring) of Genji monogatari
(The Tale of Genji), set in Prince Genji’s Rokujo
Mansion, the residence of his daughter the
Akashi Princess: in the lower right foreground a
gilt-metal uguisu (warbler) perched on flowering
plum branches; beside the plum, pines and
a garden lake, the design extending around
the sides, the interior of the mansion glimpsed
in a short stretch of tatami flooring with kicho
(formal curtains) and a rolled sudare (blinds),
the interior and base of rich nashiji, the rims
of silver; unsigned. 16cm x 20.3cm x 26cm
(6¼in x 8in x 10¼in). (2).

£3,500 - 4,000
JPY680,000 - 780,000
US$4,600 - 5,200

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