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A GOLD-LACQUER SUZURIBAKO (BOX FOR WRITING UTENSILS) Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century image 1
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A GOLD-LACQUER SUZURIBAKO (BOX FOR WRITING UTENSILS)
Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century

14 December 2023, 17:00 EST
New York

Sold for US$14,080 inc. premium

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A GOLD-LACQUER SUZURIBAKO (BOX FOR WRITING UTENSILS)

Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century
In the form of the Takarabune (Treasure Ship) viewed from the front, the exterior of the lid decorated in gold, silver, and colored hiramaki-e and takamaki-e against a gold kinji ground, depicting the ship in full sail making its way through the waves, the silver figurehead in the form of a dragon clasping a pearl in its left foreclaw, the ship laden with takaramono (emblems of the Shichifukujin, Seven Gods of Good Fortune) including, from right to left, merchants' weights, the kakuremino (cloak of invisibility), cloves, scrolls, the treasure sack of Hotei, the coral branch carried by Jurōjin, the kakuregasa (hat of invisibility), and the rice bales and mallet of Daikoku, the interior gold nashiji, fitted with a fude-oki (brush rest) and ita (baseboard) enclosing an elongated suzuri (ink-grinding-stone) and a silver suiteki (water dropper) in the form of a shippō motif, the rims silver, unsigned; with a wood storage box inscribed Nashiji takarabune onsuzuribako (Box for writing utensils with the Treasure Ship on a nashiji ground)
8 1/2 × 5 × 1 1/4in (21.5 × 12.7 × 4.2cm)

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