Lot 299*
A matching set of a gold lacquer and silver-inlaid ryoshibako (document box) and suzuribako (writing box) and covers Meiji Period
11 May 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £72,000 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA matching set of a gold lacquer and silver-inlaid ryoshibako (document box) and suzuribako (writing box) and covers
Meiji Period
Both with flush-fitting lids, the exterior of the ryoshibako embellished with superimposed ogi (folding fans), opened to reveal their differently decorated leaves of famous shrines, places and buildings in landscape, butterflies and windswept Autumnal plants, in gold and silver hiramakie and takamakie, with red and green lacquer with details of aogai, togidashi, kirikane and mura-nashiji on a dense o-birame ground, the design continuing over the lid and sides of the base, the imitation ribs and guards of the fans inlaid in silver, the inside of the lid lacquered in the same technique, depicting a flock of cranes in flight over pines growing beside a stream in a rocky landscape reserved on a rich nashiji ground; the suzuribako bearing a similar decoration, contains ensuite fitted, movable trays for an ink-stone, a water-dropper in the form of pine and cherry branches in silver with gold inlay, an ink-stick holder, a spike, a knife, and two brushes with nashiji holders and silver fittings decorated with karakusa, the undersides finished in nashiji, the rims of both boxes edged in silver, both unsigned; with two double storage boxes.
The ryoshibako 17cm x 34.2cm x 43cm (6¾in x 13½in x 17in); the suzuribako 5cm x 24.5cm x 27.3cm (2in x 9 5/8in x 10¾in). (6).
Both with flush-fitting lids, the exterior of the ryoshibako embellished with superimposed ogi (folding fans), opened to reveal their differently decorated leaves of famous shrines, places and buildings in landscape, butterflies and windswept Autumnal plants, in gold and silver hiramakie and takamakie, with red and green lacquer with details of aogai, togidashi, kirikane and mura-nashiji on a dense o-birame ground, the design continuing over the lid and sides of the base, the imitation ribs and guards of the fans inlaid in silver, the inside of the lid lacquered in the same technique, depicting a flock of cranes in flight over pines growing beside a stream in a rocky landscape reserved on a rich nashiji ground; the suzuribako bearing a similar decoration, contains ensuite fitted, movable trays for an ink-stone, a water-dropper in the form of pine and cherry branches in silver with gold inlay, an ink-stick holder, a spike, a knife, and two brushes with nashiji holders and silver fittings decorated with karakusa, the undersides finished in nashiji, the rims of both boxes edged in silver, both unsigned; with two double storage boxes.
The ryoshibako 17cm x 34.2cm x 43cm (6¾in x 13½in x 17in); the suzuribako 5cm x 24.5cm x 27.3cm (2in x 9 5/8in x 10¾in). (6).
Footnotes
扇面散蒔絵料紙箱・硯箱 明治時代
