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Japanese Art
Lot 87*

A gold-lacquer kogo (incense box)
Edo period

21 March 2018, 11:00 GMT
Edinburgh

Sold for £562.50 inc. premium

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A gold-lacquer kogo (incense box)

Edo period
A circular turned-wood box with inrobuta (flush-fitting lid), the exterior covered in gold kinji lacquer and finely decorated in gold and some red takamaki-e with extensive gold foil, depicting flowering cherry trees in the mountains of Yoshino with a thatched cottage in the foreground and bands of cloud above, the base, risers and interior of fine gold nashiji.
3.2cm x 8.5cm, and with wood storage box (3).

Footnotes

The storage box inscribed Yoshinoyama maki-e kogo (maki-e incense box with design of Yoshino mountains).

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