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A LACQUER HIIRE [ASH CONTAINER] A LACQUER NATSUME [TEA CONTAINER]
EDO PERIOD (18TH-19TH CENTURY) EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
巴太鼓蒔絵火入 忍草蒔絵棗
江戸時代（18-19世紀） 江戸時代（18世紀）
The ash container in the form of a drum with studded rims, decorated in gold, silver Of typical form with fush-ftting cover, decorated in gold hiramaki-e on a black
and black hiramaki-e and togidashi, the fush-ftting cover with a mitsu-domoe ground with ferns, nashiji interior, fundame rims
design opening to reveal a copper-lined interior, the exterior with a mokume [wood
7cm. high
grain] ground, nashiji footrim, silver fnial
£5,000-7,000 $8,500-12,000
6.8cm. high
€6,200-8,600
£3,000-4,000 $5,100-6,700
€3,700-4,900
PROVENANCE:
Eskenazi Ltd., London.
PROVENANCE:
EXHIBITED:
Eskenazi Ltd., London
Japanese Netsuke, Inro and Lacquer-ware, Eskenazi, Foxglove House, London,
12 – 23 December 1986
For further examples of drum-shaped lacquer boxes formally in the collection of
Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) and now in the Guimet Museum collection, Paris, see: PUBLISHED:
Eskenazi Ltd., Japanese Netsuke, Inro and Lacquer-ware, (London, 1986), cat. no. 66
Kyoto National Museum ed., Japan makie – kyuden wo kazaru toyo no kirameki –
[Export Lacquer: Refection of the West in Black and Gold Makie], (Osaka, 2008),
This type of fern is called shinobu, which literally translated to mean enduring,
cat. 121 and 126
concealing or longing and the word has often been used in Japanese poems for its
allusion to old times gone by.

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