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A SET OF LACQUER STATIONERY BOX (RYOSHIBAKO)
AND WRITING BOX (SUZURIBAKO)
MEIJI-TAISHO PERIOD (EARLY 20TH CENTURY)
Both boxes elaborately decorated in gold and polychrome takamaki-e
on a okihirame ground, exterior of stationery box with Musashibo
Benkei and of writing box with Minamoto no Yoshitsune on Gojo
Bridge, Benkei's tachi inlaid wtih silver and gold foil, both interiors
desgined with pines in ishimenuri, writing box with moon inlaid in
gold, interior of both bases on nashiji ground; writing box interior
of base with a pine tree, continuous design to the divider, fitted with
silver water dropper in the shape of a fan with gold inlaid sun and
shibuichi fan sticks, ink stone, two brushes, a paper pricker, knife, ink
cake stand with silver fittings; with silver rims
Stationery box: 17¡ x 13Ω x 6Ω in. (44.1 x 34.3 x 16.5 cm.)
Writing box: 10Ω x 9Ω x 2¿ in. (26.7 x 24.1 x 5.4 cm.)
Each with a wood box with Kitashirakawa Family crest (2)
$40,000-60,000

PROVENANCE:
Kitashirakawa Family, Tokyo