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AFTER SHIBATA ZESHIN (1807-1891) A Gold- and Bronze-Colored-Lacquer Suzuribako (Box for Writing-Utensils) Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century image 1
AFTER SHIBATA ZESHIN (1807-1891) A Gold- and Bronze-Colored-Lacquer Suzuribako (Box for Writing-Utensils) Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century image 2
AFTER SHIBATA ZESHIN (1807-1891) A Gold- and Bronze-Colored-Lacquer Suzuribako (Box for Writing-Utensils) Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century image 3
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AFTER SHIBATA ZESHIN (1807-1891)
A Gold- and Bronze-Colored-Lacquer Suzuribako (Box for Writing-Utensils)
Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century

14 December 2023, 17:00 EST
New York

Sold for US$6,144 inc. premium

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AFTER SHIBATA ZESHIN (1807-1891)

A Gold- and Bronze-Colored-Lacquer Suzuribako (Box for Writing-Utensils)
Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century
Rounded rectangular with domed kabusebuta (overhanging lid) decorated inside and out with gold, silver, and colored hiramaki-e and takamaki-e with embellishments of shell and gold foil against a seidōnuri ground imitating patinated bronze, the exterior with a branch of plum, a chakago (basket for tea utensils), a brazier, kettle, cups, and saucers for the sencha style of leaf-tea drinking, the interior of the lid with two shikishi (decorated papers), one inscribed with a poem, the interior of the box undecorated, with a raised section to the left enclosing a suzuri (ink-grinding-stone) and plain oxidized silver suiteki (water dropper), the rims silver lacquer, with incised signature on the base Zeshin; with a wood storage box inscribed Chadōgu maki-e onsuzuribako (Suzuribako with tea utensils in maki-e)
2 5/8 × 9 1/2 × 10 5/8in (6.7 × 24 × 27cm)

Footnotes

Provenance
Christie's London, November 16, 2000, lot 64

Published
Spink and Son Limited, Japanese Lacquer: Miyabi Transformed, exhibition catalogue, London, 1997, cat. no.43

For an urushi-e (painted lacquer) screen by Shibata Zeshin with a related design, compare Tadaomi Gōke, Bakumatsu kaikaki no shikkō kaiga: Shibata Zeshin meihinshū (Lacquer and Painting in Late Edo and Early Meiji: A Collection of Masterworks by Shibata Zeshin), Tokyo, Gakushū Kenkyūsha, 1981, nos.144-5

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