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A miniature gold lacquer suzuribako (writing box) with a suzuribako and ryoshibako (document box) set Edo period (1615-1868) to Meiji era (1868-1912), 19th century
A miniature gold lacquer suzuribako (writing box) with a suzuribako and ryoshibako (document box) set
Edo period (1615-1868) to Meiji era (1868-1912), 19th centuryThe first writing box elegantly rendered in gold takamaki-e alternating with silver hiramaki-e kiri (paulownia) leaves on a fine nashiji ground with an interior showing hillsides set off by pines and flowers in gold takamaki-e and kirikane, a shakudo and silver scroll-form water dropper; the second a miniature set of suzuribako and ryoshibako depicting the poets Abbot Sojo Henjo and Kakinomoto no Hitomaro rendered on a dense nashiji ground 3 3/4 x 3 1/4 x 3/4in (9.5 x 8.5 x 2cm); (3 1/8 x 2 5/8 x 5/8in (7.8 x 6.8 x 1.7cm)
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PublishedStephen Little and Edmund J. Lewis, View of the Pinnacle: Japanese Lacquer Writing Boxes: The Lewis Collection of Suzuribako, Honolulu: University of Hawai?i Press, 2011, cat. nos. 24 and 25
