A lacquered sake bottle with scrolling foliage 18th century
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A lacquer tokkuri (sake bottle) and cover
Momoyama Period, late 16th/early 17th century
The oviform black lacquer body decorated in gold hiramakie and e-nashiji with a continuous design of a scrolling grape vine, with en-suite cover similarly lacquered, unsigned. 22.2cm (8¾in). (2).
Sold for £4,375 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • 蒔絵徳利　蔦文様　無銘　桃山時代（16世紀後期/17世紀前期）

    Provenance: purchased at Christie's, London, 2005.
    Wrangham collection, no.2218.

    A similar bottle was exhibited from a Japanese private collection in the Metropolitan Museum and illustrated in the Catalogue, Turning Point: Oribe and the Arts of the Sixteenth Century Japan, New York 2003, no.155.

Category: Asian Art / Japanese Art

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