A RARE NEGORO LACQUER BOW

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22.03.2022 10:00UTC -04:00
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ID 726876
Lot 63 | A RARE NEGORO LACQUER BOW
A RARE NEGORO LACQUER BOW

MUROMACHI PERIOD (15TH-16TH) CENTURY

The bamboo and wood bow (fusedake no yumi) finely covered in red lacquer with intrusions of black lacquer, the limbs straight with the tips curve inward, center and bottom tips wrapped with rattan

54 3⁄8 in. (138.1 cm.)







Literature

Kawada Sadamu, ed., Tokubetsuten Negoro (Masterpieces of Japanese Negoro ware) (Tokyo: Negoro-ten jikko iinkai, 2010), pl. 159.





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"Tokubetsuten Negoro" (Masterpieces of Japanese Negoro ware), Okura Shukokan (Okura Museum of Art), Tokyo, 3 October-13 December, 2009
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