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A BLACK- AND GOLD-LACQUER SUZURIBAKO (BOX FOR WRITING UTENSILS) Meiji (1868-1912) or Taisho (1912-1926) era, late 19th/early 20th century image 1
A BLACK- AND GOLD-LACQUER SUZURIBAKO (BOX FOR WRITING UTENSILS) Meiji (1868-1912) or Taisho (1912-1926) era, late 19th/early 20th century image 2
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A BLACK- AND GOLD-LACQUER SUZURIBAKO (BOX FOR WRITING UTENSILS)
Meiji (1868-1912) or Taisho (1912-1926) era, late 19th/early 20th century

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14 December 2023, 17:00 EST
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A BLACK- AND GOLD-LACQUER SUZURIBAKO (BOX FOR WRITING UTENSILS)

Meiji (1868-1912) or Taisho (1912-1926) era, late 19th/early 20th century
Rounded rectangular with domed kabusebuta (overhanging lid), with rounded corners and domed top, decorated in gold, aokin, and silver hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, and togidashi maki-e against a black ground with sparse gold hirame flakes, depicting a jakōneko (musk cat) and two kits seated on a bank, the interior of the lid with willow and cherry trees in similar techniques, the interior of the box with fude-oki (brush rests) to either side of the suzuri (ink-grinding-stone), the ita (baseboard) enclosing a copper-alloy suiteki (water dropper) in the form of a bundle of grass, unsigned; with a wood storage box inscribed Onsuzuribako
9 3/8 × 8 1/2 × 1 3/4in (24 × 21.6 × 4.5cm)

Footnotes

The jakōneko, musk rat or civet, made its first appearance in Japanese art in a pair of sixteenth-century screens attributed to Kano Utanosuke (died circa 1575) which is now divided between the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Suntory Museum, Tokyo. It is very rarely seen in lacquer.

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Please note that this lot was previously sold at Christie's, New York, September 17, 1997, lot 188.

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