A LACQUER WRITING BOX (SUZURIBAKO) AND MATCHING WRITING TABLE (BUNDAI)

Lot 68
22.03.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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Event locationUSA, New York
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Lot 68 | A LACQUER WRITING BOX (SUZURIBAKO) AND MATCHING WRITING TABLE (BUNDAI)
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$ 30 000 – 40 000
A LACQUER WRITING BOX (SUZURIBAKO) AND MATCHING WRITING TABLE (BUNDAI)

MEIJI-TAISHO PERIOD (EARLY 20TH CENTURY)

The rectangular box with round corners and slightly domed cover, finely decorated in gold, silver and black lacquer hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, togidashi, kirigane and inlaid silver, gold, shibuichi and gold and silver foil, with design of cherry blossom, river, pines and mountain, fitted with inkstone, two brushes, a paper pricker, a knife, an ink cake stand and a silver water dropper in shape of cherry blossom and maple leaf reseumbling Mount Yoshino and Tatsutagawa, the writing table decorated en suite with finely chiseled silver mounts

Writing box: 10 x 9 x 2 in. (25.4 x 22.9 x 5.1 cm.)

Writing table: 14 1⁄4 x 25 3⁄4 x 5 5⁄8 in. (36.2 x 65.4 x 14.3 cm.)

Each with original box titled and sgined Heian Kosetsu saku with cursive monogram, and lacquer storage box with Kitashirakawa Family crest







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Kitashirakawa Family
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