A LACQUER BOX WITH DRAWERS

Lot 179
18.03.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1387645
Lot 179 | A LACQUER BOX WITH DRAWERS
Estimate value
$ 20 000 – 30 000
A LACQUER BOX WITH DRAWERS
MEIJI-TAISHO PERIOD (LATE 19TH-EARLY 20TH CENTURY), ATTRIBUTED TO SHIRAYAMA SHOSAI (1853-1923)
4 ¾ x 6 ¾ x 2 1/8 in. (12.1 x 17.1 x 5.4 cm.)
With accompanied exhibition caption and label reading 'silver medal'




Provenance

Tanaka & Co., Osaka
Mr. J. C. Lehüller
Barry Davies Oriental Art Ltd, London
Acquired from the above, 1996
Thence by descent



Literature

Ferns Feathers Flowers, Japanese Lacquer of the Meiji and Taisho Periods from the Baur Collection (Münster: Museum für Lackkunst, 2000). Pp. 81, fig. 26.
Jan Dees, Japanese Lacquer Artist – Shirayama Shosai, in Arts of Asia, vol. 32:2, (Hong Kong: Arts of Asia Publications Ltd., 2002), no. 9.



Exhibited

St. Louis Universal Exposition, Louisiana, 30 April-1 Dec 1904
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