A lacquer writing box (suzuribako)
(20th century)
The large writing box with rounded corners and overhanging lid varicolored gold, silver and red hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, togidashi, gold foil, kirikane and nashiji with a male and female pheasant standing on craggy rocks surrounded by bamboo and a flowering tree, the birds with inlaid glass eyes, the underside of the lid decorated with two minogame on rocks above a meandering river, all on a nashiji ground, the box fitted with a slate inkstone with fundame rim and a silver waterdropper (suiteki) in the form of a crane
10 x 8 7/8 x 2in. (25.4 x 22.6 x 5.1cm.)
A lacquer writing box (suzuribako)
(20th century)
The large writing box with rounded corners and overhanging lid varicolored gold, silver and red hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, togidashi, gold foil, kirikane and nashiji with a male and female pheasant standing on craggy rocks surrounded by bamboo and a flowering tree, the birds with inlaid glass eyes, the underside of the lid decorated with two minogame on rocks above a meandering river, all on a nashiji ground, the box fitted with a slate inkstone with fundame rim and a silver waterdropper (suiteki) in the form of a crane
10 x 8 7/8 x 2in. (25.4 x 22.6 x 5.1cm.)
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