Dimensions
14.10cm wide
12.70cm high
6.10cm deep
(5.55 inches wide 5.00 inches high 2.40 inches deep)
Provenance
Ex collection: William Sturgis Bigelow and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Condition:
Good condition
Description / Expertise
Presumably intended for cosmetics, the box is decorated with trompe-l’œil rocks in iridescent silver and earth-red takamakie with inlays of aogai. Each rock is engraved with a single kanji character with alongside it a related 3–character inscription in gold hiramakie. The interior is plain apart from a scene of chidori above a stream in gold hiramakie beneath the cover. The characters and inscriptions refer to the names of a number of regions within Musashino Province (present day Tokyo and Saitama), names which largely disappeared in two reforms of 1871 and 1878 as a step to break with the han system associated with the earlier domains of the daimyo. The box may well have been made in commemoration of these changes.
Price
gbp 8000.00 (Pound Sterling)
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