ID 726812
Lot 68 | A LACQUER WRITING BOX (SUZURIBAKO) AND MATCHING WRITING TABLE (BUNDAI)
Estimate value
$ 30 000 – 40 000
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
Provenance
Kitashirakawa Family
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Japanese lacquerware, Plastic |
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| Historical era: | Meiji period, Taisho period |
| Place of origin: | Eastern Asia, Japan, Asia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Boxes and Cases |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Japanese lacquerware, Plastic |
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| Historical era: | Meiji period, Taisho period |
| Place of origin: | Eastern Asia, Japan, Asia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Boxes and Cases |
| Address of auction |
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