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A matching suzuribako (writing box) and bundai (writing table) Meiji/Taisho era (early 20th century) image 1
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Lot 3079

A matching suzuribako (writing box) and bundai (writing table)
Meiji/Taisho era (early 20th century)

18 March 2015, 13:00 EDT
New York

Sold for US$4,000 inc. premium

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A matching suzuribako (writing box) and bundai (writing table)

Meiji/Taisho era (early 20th century)
Each designed with motifs derived from illustrations associated with the Tales of Ise and the Tale of Genji; the writing box decorated on the cover with a courtier and lady-in-waiting in a flowering landscape and the writing table with a lady-in-waiting and youthful attendant seated on a veranda gazing over the countryside, all decorated in several shades of gold and black hiramaki-e and gold takamaki-e, fundame, mura-nashiji, and kirigane and with embellishments of gold and silver kanagai on a gold nashiji ground, the underside of the suzuribako cover decorated with a continuation of the theme and additional shell inlay, the interior and two removable interior trays of gold nashiji with gold takamaki-e bamboo and flowering prunus, and with a silver crescent-moon suiteki (water dropper) and a rectangular ink stone with fundame edges, the table fittings silvered metal and the exterior of the legs and underside gold nashiji
Suzuribako 1 3/4 x 10 1/4 x 9 1/8 (4.5 x 26 x 23.4cm)
Bundai 5 3/4 x 14 1/8 x 24 5/8in (14.7 x 36 x 62.5cm)

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