A Japanese Gold Lacquer Scroll Box, Jikumono bako

19th Century

of elongated rectangular form, the cover worked with gold takamaki-e and shell inlays to the nashiji ground to show sparrows beneath boughs of wisteria.

Length 12 1/2 in., 31.75 cm.

Property from a Private Collection

This lot is located in Chicago.

The overall structural integrity presently sound and stable, all shell inlays intact, with some expecting rubbing and soiling to the gilding throughout, particularly at the corners and lips of each box and cover. The cover with a small deeper incision near the upmost bird, splitting at the interior where one short wall meets the top. The underside with some flaking a the corners, one of which with a thumbnail-sized flaking chip.

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Ms. Wu joined the firm in 2014, after working as a specialist in the Asian Works of Art Department of an East Coast auction house. She researches, appraises, and sells Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, and South East Asian works of art, including jades, bronzes, ceramics, paintings, armor, and furniture. Throughout her career, Ms. Wu has achieved record prices for several prominent estates and collections, including the Estate of Frank G. Mertes, Sr., Winona, Minnesota; the Chinese Painting Collection of Ms. Yuan Jiaying and Mr. Li Guoyuan, Chicago; the Estate of Hisazo Nagatani, Chicago, and the Asian Art Collection deaccessioned from the Strong Museum of Play, Rochester, New York.

Asian Decorative Art

A Japanese Gold Lacquer Scroll Box, Jikumono bako

Asian Decorative Art

A Japanese Gold Lacquer Scroll Box, Jikumono bako

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