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A FINE SILVER AND GOLD-INLAID LACQUER JU-KOBAKO (SMALL TIERED BOX) AND COVER WITH A HORSE, CHERRY BLOSSOMS AND SPIDERWEB
奥地利 北京时间
12月06日 下午5点 开拍 / 12月04日 下午3点 截止委托
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A FINE SILVER AND GOLD-INLAID LACQUER JU-KOBAKO (SMALL TIERED BOX) AND COVER WITH A HORSE, CHERRY BLOSSOMS AND SPIDERWEB

Japan, 19th century

The four-tiered stacking box of rectangular form with rounded corners, the top of the cover neatly inlaid in silver and gold takazogan with a galloping horse still ‘caught’ in a spider's web hanging from the rim, the equine of course freeing itself with ease, some threads have already come loose, the dense nashiji ground finely decorated in iro-e hiramaki-e and takamaki-e with scattered cherry blossoms, the rim with a diapered pattern. The top tier of the box similarly lacquered with a lotus pond with several blossoms, pods, and large leaves, the water slowly trickling down the tiers and sprinkled with scattered cherry blossoms and maple leaves, and the bottom tier with ducks swimming in the pond. The interiors of nashiji, the interior of the bottom case lined in metal, the rims of silver.

SIZE 7.5 x 8.2 x 5.3 cm

Condition: Very good condition with only very minor wear.
Provenance: Christie’s, Japanese Works of Art, 17 September 1997, New York, lot 93. The private collection of Maybelle Dore, acquired from the above. The interior with an old inventory label, ‘B117’. Maybelle (Betty) Dore started collecting Japanese antiques in the postwar years, during the 1950s and 1960s, when interest in Japanese art was generally very low. For her business she ventured to Japan on her own to assemble netsuke and related works of art, including pipe cases and kogo (incense containers). Betty was also a founding member and the first Chairman of the International Netsuke Society, Northern California Chapter.

The origins of this unusual motif can be traced to Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness), a celebrated collection of essays written in the fourteenth century by the priest Kenko, who wrote approvingly of the restrained style of the uniforms formerly worn by guards at the Kamo horse races, consisting of an image of a horse covered by a garment painted with spiders' webs. This combination was taken up in dramatic works such as the Noh play Kanawa (The Iron Crown) and the Kyogen comedy Kumonusubito (The Spider Thief). In Kanawa, a woman despairs of her cheating husband, exclaiming that even if she hitched his horse to a spider's web, she could never trust such a faithless man (the recitation of a verse on the same theme forms the climax to Kumonusubito). This ambiguous sentiment later evolved into a more straightforward design, with the implication that any attempt to rein in human passion is akin to restraining a galloping horse with a flimsy spider's web.

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