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AN IMPORTANT SOFT-METAL-INLAID SHIBUICHI AND
LACQUER BOX AND COVER
MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED KATSUHIRO (KAGAWA
KATSUHIRO; 1853-1917) AND SEALED IN GILT EIRAKU
The rectangular box with bracket feet, the lid of shibuichi finely
chiseled and inlaid in gold, silver and shibuichi with two egrets in
a marsh on top and the reflection of the moon on underside, the
exterior of the box covered in black-lacquered shagreen skin, the
interior and base with fine nashiji, signature and seal on top
4¡ x 6¿ x 2Ω in. (11 x 15.5 x 6.5 cm.)
With original wood box titled Banshu seiryu ni asobu sagi (Egrets
and marsh in late autumn), signed Kagawa Katsuhiro saku (made by
Kagawa Katsuhiro), also with accompanied document signed by
Kagawa Katsukiyo (1894-1967)
$150,000-250,000

EXHIBITED:
Japan–British Exhibition, London, 14 May-29 October 1910
LITERATURE:
Nichiei hakurankai shinbijutsu shuppin zuroku (Catalogue of Japan-
British Exhibition) (Tokyo, Administrative office of Japan-British
Exhibition, 1910), exh. cat. no. 192.