A RINPA STYLE INLAID LACQUER SUZURIBAKO (WRITING BOX) Edo period...
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DRS. EDMUND AND JULIE LEWIS
A RINPA STYLE INLAID LACQUER SUZURIBAKO (WRITING BOX)
Edo period (1615-1868), 18th/19th century
Rectangular, with a domed kabusebuta (overhanging) lid decorated in gold and black lacquer with inlays of shell and pewter with Ariwara no Narihira on horseback, the interior with a continuous design of pine trees, fitted with a rectangular inkstone, the water dropper now lost
9 3/8 x 8 1/2 x 2 3/4in (23.8 x 21.6 x 6.9cm)
Published
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. 38
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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DRS. EDMUND AND JULIE LEWIS
A RINPA STYLE INLAID LACQUER SUZURIBAKO (WRITING BOX)
Edo period (1615-1868), 18th/19th century
Rectangular, with a domed kabusebuta (overhanging) lid decorated in gold and black lacquer with inlays of shell and pewter with Ariwara no Narihira on horseback, the interior with a continuous design of pine trees, fitted with a rectangular inkstone, the water dropper now lost
9 3/8 x 8 1/2 x 2 3/4in (23.8 x 21.6 x 6.9cm)
Published
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. 38
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