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Property from the Collection of Drs. Edmund and Julie Lewis
A BLACK-LACQUER suzuribako (writing box)
Edo period (1615-1868), 19th centuryThe small rectangular box with canted edges and decorated in iro-e takamaki-e and highlights of aogai with fish, seashells, and seaweed wrapped in a lotus leaf, all against a roiro-nuri ground, the interior with a continuous design of a pair of mallard ducks on rocks near crashing waves, and sparrows in a blossoming plum tree and camellias against a nashiji ground, fitted with a rectangular inkstone and a pewter water dropper cast with peony blossoms 6 3/4 x 6 1/4 x 1 1/2in (17.1 x 15/8 x 3.8cm)
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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. no.29