A Japanese lacquer Suzuribako (writing box) (c. 1850 Japan)

Unsigned

16.50cm wide    21.70cm high    (6.50 inches wide  8.54 inches high)

Ex collection: Charles Goddard Weld and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Good condition

Decorated in the finest gold togidashi with a recumbent stag holding a branch of reishi fungus in its mouth and looking up at two wheeling bats, all contained in a lunette formed by a surround of gold togidashi with ragged outer edge. The interior is lacquered vermilion, the underside of the cover with a small temple in a mountain landscape, the base with pine trees and clouds depicted in gold lacquer. The fittings comprise an unusual ink-stone with cut corners, and a silver mizu-ire with shakudo and gilt details in the form of two small drums.

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