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A Sumiakabako [Large Red-Cornered Cosmetic Box]
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A Sumiakabako [Large Red-Cornered Cosmetic Box]

EDO PERIOD (17TH-18TH CENTURY)

Fermé7 November 2012

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A Sumiakabako [Large Red-Cornered Cosmetic Box]
Edo Period (17th-18th century)
Of red-lacquered cloth over wood, decorated in gold and black hiramaki-e and nashiji with a katagawari zig-zag pattern with bellflowers and bellflower mon, black lacquer interior, engraved copper fittings
37.3cm. long

Note du spécialiste

Boxes of this type, which first appeared in the middle of the fourteenth century, are called sumiakabako [boxes with red corners]. Although their use was not strictly prescribed, it seems that they usually held cosmetics, and they regularly formed part of konrei chodo [formal wedding trousseaux]. See Koike Tomio, 'Hatsune no chodo ni tsuite [On the Hatsune no chodo]', in Tokugawa Art Museum, Hatsune no chodo [Hatsune maki-e lacquer furnishings] (Nagoya, 1985), (111-21), 120.