Early 17th century Bearing a rubbed kinji ground and lacquered with two boatloads of brushwood pulled beneath a bridge by three workmen while a flock of birds fly amid clouds above, in takamakie, the interior of black lacquer, unsigned.
7cm (2¾in).
Footnotes
舟引き図蒔絵印籠 無銘 17世紀前期
Provenance: W.L. Behrens collection, sold at Glendining & Co., London, 4th November 1915. Purchased at Sotheby's London, 1982. Wrangham collection, no.1583.
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