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A GOLD AND BLACK LACQUER DOCUMENT BOX:Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912) mid/late 19th century
Of standard form with rounded corners and slightly domed lid of inrobuta (flush-fitting) type, the black lacquer ground decorated in gold, aokin, and silver, hiramaki-e and takamaki-e with shell details, the exterior with one set of three and another set of four overlapping poem cards, decorated with young warabi (ferns); a courtier\’s gissha (ox-drawn carriage) by a wall overgrown with yugao (\”Evening Face\” flowers), alluding to the chapter with that title in Genji monogatari (The Tale of Genji); butterflies; rafts with sheaves of rice passing under a bridge; a pine tree; and suzumushi (bell crickets) on grasses; the reverse of the lid with a branch of flowering prunus growing from behind a rustic fence; the interior of the box lined with silk brocade
With wood tomobako storage box
15 3/4 x 12 x 5in (40 x 30.5 x 12.7cm)
金黑漆文件盒 江户时代或明治时代19世纪中后期
