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

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DRS. EDMUND AND JULIE LEWIS
AN INLAID LACQUER BOX
Edo period (1615-1868), 18th century
With a slightly domed kabusebuta (overhanging) lid decorated with blossoming hydrangeas in gold, silver, and brown hiramaki-e and inlays of shell against a black-lacquer ground, the interior black lacquer
9 3/8 x 9 x 1 3/4in (23.8 x 22.8 x 4.4cm)
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. 32

Provenance
Henri Vever Collection, by repute