Page 54 - 2021 March 16th Japanese and Korean Art, Christie's New York City

PROPERTY FROM A PRINCELY COLLECTION
34 A SOFT-METAL-INLAID BOX AND COVER

MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED AND DATED MORITOSHI JISHIKI
(UNNO MORITOSHI; 1834-1896) KINOE-SARU INUZUKI(OCTOBER 1884)

The square silver box with slightly domed
lid, the top elaborately inlaid in gold, silver,
shakudo and shibuichi with Fudo Myoo (Acala
"The Immovable One") and young priest Yuten,
encircled by a boarder inlaid is gold, silver with
lotus flowers, the sides elaborately worked
in various motifs inlaid in gold, silver, copper,
shakudoand shibuichi, the inner box with
brocade design in gold, copper and shakudo
hirazogan, the underside of the lid designed
with a Buddhist vajra and sutra opened, the
gold cartouche is inscribed Shaku Yuten(The
Priest Yuten)
4 x 41 x 12 in. (10.2 x 10.3 x 3 cm.)

$40,000-60,000

PROVENANCE:
Grace Tsumugi Fine Art Ltd., London

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892). Fudo Myoo Threatening a Novice. Japan. Edo period, 1885.