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A GOLD-LACQUER KODANSU (MINIATURE CABINET) Taisho era (1912-1926), early 20th century image 1
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A GOLD-LACQUER KODANSU (MINIATURE CABINET)
Taisho era (1912-1926), early 20th century

14 December 2023, 17:00 EST
New York

Sold for US$6,400 inc. premium

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A GOLD-LACQUER KODANSU (MINIATURE CABINET)

Taisho era (1912-1926), early 20th century
With a hinged door opening to reveal four drawers, constructed with rounded chiri-i ledges to each edge and with silvered-metal hinges, door catch, and carrying handle, the exterior decorated in gold and aokin hiramaki-e and takamaki-e over a polished gold kinji lacquer ground with embellishments of okibirame gold-foil mosaic, depicting wisteria branches, leaves, and blossoms, the reverse of the door and the drawer fronts decorated in similar techniques on a polished black roiro ground densely sprinkled with gold and silver hirame flakes, depicting butterflies, a stream, and spring plants including katabami (woodsorrel), cherry blossom, plum blossom, sugina (horsetail), and tanpopo (dandelion), unsigned
8 1/4 × 9 5/8 × 6 15/16in (20.9 × 24.4 × 17.6cm)

Footnotes

For a similar example of a kodansu with wisteria design, by the influential lacquerer and design innovator Akatsuka Jitoku (1871-1936), see Spink and Son Limited, Japanese Lacquer: Miyabi Transformed, exhibition catalogue, London, 1997, cat. no.45.

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