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A FINE AND RARE NANBAN CABINET
Momoyama period (1573-1615), early 17th century
The cabinet with a double-hinged door above two long
deep bottom drawers opening to reveal a fitted interior
of eleven drawers of varying sizes arranged around a
central arched deep drawer, the front two doors and top
decorated with a relief-carved scenes of Chinese boys
chasing animals in a garden, the sides and inside of
the doors decorated in normal Nanban floral style with
flowering shrubs enclosed within a lobed panel in gold,
silver and slight coloured takamaki-e and hiramaki-e
surrounded by four assorted crests reserved on a
shagreen-covered ground, the inside drawers similarly
lacquered with sparse flowers and fitted with gilt knops
and pulls in the form of florets, the whole framed by
narrow borders of geometric patterns and shippo-tsunagi
(linked-jewels), inlaid in shell, the sides applied with two
gilt-copper bracket carrying handles, the front corners
with four gilt-copper fittings along each side engraved
with a chrysanthemum crest among karakusa (‘Chinese
grasses’), on a separate four-legged ebony wood stand,
with two Japanese paper slips inscribed Nanban jinbutsu
maki-e raden dansu, Manno Bijutsukan shozo
(A Nanban maki-e raden cabinet with figures in the
collection of Manno Museum)
The cabinet: 58.5cm x 52.2cm x 42.2cm
(23in x 20½in x 16 5/8in), the stand: 72.2cm x 48.5cm
(28½in x 19 1/16in). (2).
£10,000 - 15,000
JPY1,500,000 - 2,200,000
US$13,000 - 20,000
Provenance
Manno Museum, item 1110.

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