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Attributed to Heian Zohiko (early 20th century) An inlaid lacquer kakesuzuribako (stacking writing box and stationery box)Taisho (1912-1926) or Showa (1926-1989) era, early 20th century
Attributed to Heian Zohiko (early 20th century)
An inlaid lacquer kakesuzuribako (stacking writing box and stationery box)Taisho (1912-1926) or Showa (1926-1989) era, early 20th centuryThe rectangular box with rounded corners and arranged in two tiers, the writing box supported by the deeper stationery box, decorated overall in Rinpa style with inlaid mother-of-pearl and simulated pewter and gold hiramaki-e on a roiro-nuri ground with a continuous scene of an eightfold bridge extending over dense clusters of blossoming irises, the interior of the writing box finished in gold kinji lacquer and fitted with an inkstone with fundame edges and a rectangular silver water dropper finished in ishime, stamped Jungin (Pure silver), the interior of the stationery box decorated with rolling waves in gold hiramaki-eWith a wood tomobako storage box 10 7/8 x 7 3/4 x 5 1/4in (27.5 x 20 x 14.5cm)
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ProvenancePreviously sold, Christie's, New York, March 19, 1997, lot 224PublishedStephen 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. no.41This box is a faithful copy of the Yatsuhashi writing box by Ogata Korin (1658-1716), now in the collection of Tokyo National Museum.