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Property from the Wagner Family Collection
A fine inlaid lacquer suzuribako (writing box) and bundai (writing table) set
Taisho era (1912-1926), early 20th centuryEach lavishly decorated in gold and silver takamaki-e, gold, silver and black hiramaki-e, and fundame and highlighted with inlays of mother-of-pearl and silver; the rectangular suzuribako with an overhanging cover and decorated on the exterior with a continuous design of an open folding fan strewn with vines of yugao (moonflower), all against a glossy roiro-nuri ground, the edges of the cover decorated with stylized floral scroll on nashiji lacquer, the interior of the box decorated with floral roundels on a lattice-work grid against a hirame ground, the box fitted with a frame supporting a rectangular ink stone lacquered with cherry-blossom florets on a nashiji-lacquer ground and applied with a silver rim, the shakudo suiteki (water dropper) formed as a kettle and set into a three-stage shakudo and gilt saucer, with two writing brushes, a paper knife, a paper pricker, and an inkstick holder and inkstick, all decorated with plum or cherry blossoms on a nashiji ground, the rims silver; the bundai decorated with trailing vines of moonflower on a split-bamboo fence and a rock garden with embellishments of silver and gold kirikane, the edges of the bundai with floral vines on a nashiji ground, the legs decorated in fundame and roiro-nuri in a checkerboard pattern, the silver hardware carved with cherry-blossom florets on a nanako ground Suzuribako 11 x 10 1/2 x 2 3/8in (28 x 26.6 x 6cm); bundai 13 7/8 x 23 1/2 x 3 5/8in (35.2 x 59.6 x 9.2cm)
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The design on this writing set is an allusion to Yugao, the fourth chapter in the Tale of Genji. In one episode of the chapter, Genji's attendant receives on behalf of his master, a moonflower blossom resting on a fan.
