Live Auction 12483The Joseph Collection of Japanese Art
A Lacquer Hiire [Ash Container]
Lot 10

A Lacquer Hiire [Ash Container]

Edo period (18th-19th century)

Closed11 November 2015

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GBP 3,250

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A Lacquer Hiire [Ash Container]
Edo period (18th-19th century)
The ash container in the form of a drum with studded rims, decorated in gold, silver and black hiramaki-e and togidashi, the flush fitting cover with a mitsu-domoe design opening to reveal a copper lined interior, the exterior with a mokume [wood grain] ground, nashiji footrim, silver finial
6.8cm. high

Eskenazi Ltd., London

Specialist note

For further examples of the drum-shaped lacquer boxes formally in the collection of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) and now in the Guimet Museum collection, Paris, see:
Kyoto National Museum ed., Japan makie – kyuden wo kazaru toyo no kirameki – [Export Lacquer: Reflection of the West in Black and Gold Makie], (Osaka, 2008), cat. 121 and 126