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AN INLAID LACQUER SUZURIBAKO (WRITING BOX) Edo period (1615-1868), 18th century

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AN INLAID LACQUER SUZURIBAKO (WRITING BOX) Edo period (1615-1868), 18th century
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AN INLAID LACQUER SUZURIBAKO (WRITING BOX) Edo period (1615-1868), 18th century The gourd-shaped box with an inrōbuta (flush-fitting) lid decorated with a pair of long-armed gibbons hanging from the stem of the gourd and leafy training vines in inlaid pewter, iridescent shell, and gold hiramaki-e, the interior with young ferns in inlays of silver and shell on a fundame ground, fitted with a circular inkstone, the water dropper now lost 10 x 8 3/4 x 1 1/2in (25.4 x 22.2 x 3.8cm) Footnotes: Published Stephen Little and Edmund J. Lewis, View of the Pinnacle: Japanese Lacquer Writing Boxes: The Lewis Collection of Suzuribako, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2011, cat. no. 9 For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing

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AN INLAID LACQUER SUZURIBAKO (WRITING BOX) Edo period (1615-1868), 18th century The gourd-shaped box with an inrōbuta (flush-fitting) lid decorated with a pair of long-armed gibbons hanging from the stem of the gourd and leafy training vines in inlaid pewter, iridescent shell, and gold hiramaki-e, the interior with young ferns in inlays of silver and shell on a fundame ground, fitted with a circular inkstone, the water dropper now lost 10 x 8 3/4 x 1 1/2in (25.4 x 22.2 x 3.8cm) Footnotes: Published Stephen Little and Edmund J. Lewis, View of the Pinnacle: Japanese Lacquer Writing Boxes: The Lewis Collection of Suzuribako, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2011, cat. no. 9 For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing

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