Square-shaped Suzuribako (writing box) in black lacquer and gold.?Japan, Edo period (1637-1868) 19th century (cm 21.5x4x20) (minor defects)
The exterior is black lacquer, ro-iro, on the lid in the lower right corner is depicted a golden lacquer rooster, hirimakie. The nashiji lacquer interior adorned with hirimakie lacquer with a hen and her three pecking chicks. The bottom of the box is made of black lacquer sprinkled with small grains of gold. It contains two removable compartments in nashiji and black lacquer, one containing the ink stone and the water tank, the metal mizuir?, in the shape of a pumpkin; the other intended for brushes and ink sticks features a small landscape decoration in hirimakie lacquer
Provenance: Private collection, Milan, Gis?le Croes Gallery, Brussels. Paper photocopy of the certificate of authenticity of 31 January 1984
15 联系方式 15.1 Il Ponte拍卖公司欢迎通过以下方式咨询信息,寄发通知,请求协助或投诉: - 通过电子邮件:info@ponteonline.com; - 通过邮件:Il Ponte Casa d’Aste,Milano 市,via Pontaccio 12号(邮政编码 20121)或via via Medici del Vascello 8号(邮政编码20138); - 通过电话:+39 02.863141(Via Pontaccio 12号)或者+39 02.8631472(via Medici del Vascello 8号)(付费电话,办公时间:via Pontaccio 12号,周一至周五 9:00 – 13:00; 14:00 – 18:00;或via Medici del Vascello 8号,周一至周五 9:00 – 13:30; 14:00 – 17:30,意大利的国家节假日除外)。 - 通过传真:+39 02.72022083(Via Pontaccio12号的办事处)或者+39 02.36633096(via Medici del Vascello 8号); Il Ponte拍卖公司会在五天内回应收到的投诉。