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A FINE INLAID LACQUER YABUMI-FORM JU-KOBAKO (SMALL TIERED BOX) AND COVER WITH QUAILS AND AUTUMNAL FLOWERS
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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 INLAID LACQUER YABUMI-FORM JU-KOBAKO (SMALL TIERED BOX) AND COVER WITH QUAILS AND AUTUMNAL FLOWERS

Japan, 19th century, Edo period (1615-1868)

The two-tiered stacking box with flush-fitting cover, finely rendered with thin folds representing a yabumi (arrow letter), the kinji ground finely decorated in iro-e takamaki-e and hiramaki-e as well as kirigane and okibirame with inlays in aogai to depict a bevy of quails admiring the full moon inlaid in silver on a cloudy night, their iridescent eyes transfixed. The sides decorated with flowering autumn plants bearing flowers like asagao (morning glory), fujibakama (thoroughwort), susuki (miscanthus), kikyo (Chinese bellflowers), and ominaeshi (valerian), before a woven fence. The base and interior compartments lacquered in nashiji with gold fundame rims.

SIZE 7 x 15.2 x 9.2 cm

Condition: Very good condition with minor wear, mostly to the edges.
Provenance: Christie’s, Japanese Works of Art, 17 September 1997, New York, lot 169. The private collection of Maybelle Dore, acquired from the above. 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 yabumi shape is very rarely seen in lacquer art. In feudal Japan, messages were sometimes sent by tying a letter to an arrow and shooting the arrow to the intended recipient. Such letters were known as yabumi (lit. ‘arrow text’). A woodblock print by Suzuki Harunobu (d. 1770), titled Love-letter Arrow and depicting a man about to send off a yabumi, is in the collection of the Tokyo National Museum, accession number A-10569-112.

Auction comparison:
Compare a related lacquer yabumi-form kobako and cover with autumnal flowers, 19th century, 13.3 cm long, at Zacke, Fine Japanese Art, 3 December 2021, Vienna, lot 146 (sold for EUR 5,056).

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