Lot 267
  • 267

A Small gold lacquer box and cover 19th century

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

in the form of two overlapping four-panel paper screens, decorated in gold hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, kirigane and gold dust on a kin-ji (gold) ground within nashi-ji borders, the sides with the Rokkasen (the six poets) and poems on a card in the same techniques, and the flowers in togidashi and hiramaki-e, the interior in sparse nashi-ji on a ro-iro (black lacquer) ground (2)

Provenance

Sotheby's London, 17th June 1987, lot 321.

Condition

Good condition.
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