A LACQUER BOX Edo period (1615-1868), 18th century

A LACQUER BOX
Edo period (1615-1868), 18th century
Rectangular with a domed inrōbuta (flush-fitting) lid decorated with courtiers in a pavilion with autumn grasses in gold hiramaki-e and nashiji agains a roiro-nuri ground, the interior hirame
7 x 6 x 2in (17.8 x 15.4 x 5cm)
Published
Henri L. Joli, W. L. Behrens Collection, Part II: Lacquer and Inro, London, 1912, pl. III, no. 8
Stephen Little and Edmund J. Lewis, View of the Pinnacle: Japanese Lacquer Writing Boxes: The Lewis Collection of Suzuribako, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2011, cat. no. 5
Provenance
W. L. Behrens Collection
Madame Marthe Couvelaire Collection