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PROPERTY FROM 蟹仙洞博物館藏品 It is extremely rare to find early lacquer boxes of this tiered each vertical tier carved with different floral bands. Both are
THE KAISENDO MUSEUM type. The present box is exquisite for its deep carving in the characterised by similar soft curved corners on the square
sections.
powerful style typical of the Yuan period. It belongs to a very
以下七件漆器（拍品編號3657-3663）乃日本山形縣 small group of 14th century lacquer wares that were carved
The following seven lots (lots 3657-3663) are being sold by 蟹仙洞博物館館藏。創始人長谷川兼三（1886-1957 in this impressive bold manner, with a pair of birds among For examples of Yuan lacquerware carved with the ‘bird
the Kaisendo Museum, located in Yamagata Prefecture. The flowers. and flower’ design see three dishes; one in the Metropolitan
items were collected by Mr Kenzo Hasegawa (1886-1957), 年）原為上山市著名絲綢企業家，初時收藏主攻刀 Museum of Art, New York, illustrated in the Museum’s
owner of the famous silk workshop in Kaminoyama. He began 劍，1948-1950年間方始蒐集漆器。 The only similar Yuan dynasty lacquer tiered box and cover exhibition East Asian Lacquer: The Florence and Herbert Irving
collecting knives and swords before his interest expanded to recorded is a slightly larger six-tiered lacquer box and cover Collection, New York, 1991, cat. no. 20; in the British Museum,
include lacquer, which he acquired between 1948 and 1950. from the Lee family collection, included in the exhibition London, from the collection of Sir Harry Garner, included in the
Dragon and Phoenix, Chinese Lacquer Ware, The Lee Family Museum’s exhibition Chinese and Associated Lacquer from the
Collection, the Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne, 1990, cat. Garner Collection, London, 1973, cat. no. 29, pl. 11; and in the
no. 32, and sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1st December 2009, Seattle Art Museum, published in Michael Knight, East Asian
3657 lot 1816. Both share the same exquisite treatment of the birds Lacquers in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle,
in flight within a profusion of foliage and buds, the sides of 1992, pl. 6.
PROPERTY FROM THE KAISENDO MUSEUM 元 剔紅花鳥紋五撞方盒
A RARE CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER FIVE-
TIERED BOX AND COVER 展覽：
YUAN DYNASTY 《彫漆》，德川美術館及根津美術館，名古屋及東
京，1984年，編號45
of square section with rounded corners, the cover elaborately
carved with two birds flying amidst blooming camellia
against a meander of stems and a profusion of foliage and
buds, the sides carved with composite floral scroll bands of
chrysanthemum, peony and hibiscus, the interiors and base
lacquered black, Japanese wood box
26 cm, 10¼ in.
EXHIBITED
Chōshitsu/Carved Lacquer, The Tokugawa Art Museum and
Nezu Institute of Fine Arts, Nagoya and Tokyo, 1984, cat. no. 45.

HK$ 600,000-800,000
US$ 78,000-104,000