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Lot 56
Sale 5284 - Asian Arts
Mar 16, 2018
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$1,200 -
1,500
Price Realized
$2,900
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Lot Description
A Japanese lacquer box decorated with "Tsuba" meiji period, 19th century
Decorated with various tsuba-shaped panels of figural or mythological scenes, including Uzume throwing beans at an oni and Shoki glaring at an oni, each worked in gold and colored lacquer hiramaki-e and takamaki-e, interior with a nashiji ground, two tsuba with "signatures". LITERATURE: For a closely related series of lacquers and discussion of them, see Barbra Teri Okada, "A Sprinkling of Gold, the Lacquer Box Collection of Elaine Ehrenkranz", Newark, 1983, pp. 97-102, nos. 33, 34.
L: 9 1/2 in., 24.1cm; W: 7 3/4 in., 19.7cm; H: 5 in., 12.7cm