JAPANESE AND KOREAN ART 23 march 2022

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A SMALL GOLD LACQUER BOX AND COVER
Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912), 19th century
Of overlapping shikishi (poem card) form decorated in iro-e
takamkai-e and hiramaki-e with butterflies and shinobu ferns
(Davallia mariesii) on a nashiji ground, and chrysanthemum and
paulownia blossoms, the interior nashiji with fundame edges
3 7/8 x 3 7/8 x 1 3/4in (9.8 x 9.8 x 4.4cm)
$2,000 - 3,000
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Exhibited and Published
Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Scattered
Gold and Midnight Gloss, Japanese Lacquer from the Anbinder
Collection, exhibition catalogue, March 31-July 8, 2007, p.6.
664
A GOLD AND BLACK LACQUER DOCUMENT BOX
Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912) mid/late
19th century
Of standard form with rounded corners and slightly domed lid of
inrobuta (flush-fitting) type, the black lacquer ground decorated in
gold, aokin, and silver, hiramaki-e and takamaki-e with shell details,
the exterior with one set of three and another set of four overlapping
poem cards, decorated with young warabi (ferns); a courtier’s gissha
(ox-drawn carriage) by a wall overgrown with yugao (“Evening Face”
flowers), alluding to the chapter with that title in Genji monogatari
(The Tale of Genji); butterflies; rafts with sheaves of rice passing
under a bridge; a pine tree; and suzumushi (bell crickets) on
grasses; the reverse of the lid with a branch of flowering prunus
growing from behind a rustic fence; the interior of the box lined with
silk brocade
With wood tomobako storage box
15 3/4 x 12 x 5in (40 x 30.5 x 12.7cm)
$7,000 - 9,000
664
665
A GOLD AND BLACK LACQUER DOCUMENT BOX
Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912) mid/late
19th century
Of standard form with rounded corners and slightly domed lid of
inrobuta (flush-fitting) type, the black lacquer ground covered on
the exterior in gold hirame flakes and on the interior in gold nashiji
flakes, decorated in gold, aokin, silver, black, and colored hiramaki-e
and takamaki-e, with gold Gyobu nashiji, kirigane and other
embellishments, the exterior showing part of a set of Hyakunin isshu
(100 Poems, Each by a Different Poet) cards, including portraits of
Ki no Tomonori, Mibu no Tadami, Fujiwara no Yoshitaka, Ise, and
Sanjo Udaijin with their poems, the interior with an empty courtier’s
gissha (ox-drawn carriage), its handles resting on a stand, next to
a stream and between two rustic fences with stands of autumn
foliage, the rims silver
With lacquered wood tomobako storage box
17 x 13 1/2 x 5 1/4in (43.2 x 34.3 x 13.3cm)
$6,000 - 8,000
665
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