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Property from the Collection of Drs. Edmund and Julie Lewis
A lacquer suzuribako (writing box)
Edo period (1615-1868), 18th centuryRectangular with an overhanging cover decorated in gold and black takamaki-e and hiramaki-e with highlights of hirame against a dense nashiji ground with geese by a marsh, the underside of the cover with an old plum tree in blossom behind a fence in gold and silver takamaki-e and coral and silver inlays, the interior with a continuation of the design, fitted with removable trays and a rectangular slate inkstone, and a gilt-silver water dropper formed as seashellsWith a wood tomobako storage box 9 3/8 x 8 7/8 x 1 3/4in (24.7 x 22.5 x 4.4cm)
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PublishedEdmund J. Lewis and Joe Earle, Shadows and Reflections: Japanese Lacquer Art from the Collection of Edmund J. Lewis at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1996, cat. no. 9Stephen 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. 16