A LACQUER WRITING BOX AND COVER (SUZURIBAKO)
Lot 1331 THE FLORENCE AND HERBERT IRVING COLLECTION

A LACQUER WRITING BOX AND COVER (SUZURIBAKO)

JAPAN, EDO/EARLY MEIJI PERIOD, 18TH-19TH CENTURY

Closed21 March 2019

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A LACQUER WRITING BOX AND COVER (SUZURIBAKO)
JAPAN, EDO/EARLY MEIJI PERIOD, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
Decorated in the tsuikin technique against a red lacquer ground with figures in a Chinese landscape, fitted inner tray with ink slate and engraved silvered-copper water dropper
7 ¾ in. (19.8 cm.) high; 10 ¼ in. (26 cm.) wide; 2 1/8 in. (5.3 cm.) deep; Japanese wood box

Klaus F. Naumann, East Asian Art, Tokyo, 1992.
The Irving Collection, no. 3825.