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Writing box (Suzuribako), Japan, 20th century Box lacquered with maki-e (gold powder) and mother-of-pearl, cover design: cranes in flight over bizarre rocks. Sign. Crack and chipping. Equipped with ink block, brush, rubbing stone and brass water dropper. Slight traces of use. 26 x 22.5 cm. Suzuribako / box with writing utensils, Japan, lacquer with maki-e, 20th ct. Slight traces of use. Crack to cover. 26 x 22.5 cm.

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Writing box (Suzuribako), Japan, 20th century Box lacquered with maki-e (gold powder) and mother-of-pearl, cover design: cranes in flight over bizarre rocks. Sign. Crack and chipping. Equipped with ink block, brush, rubbing stone and brass water dropper. Slight traces of use. 26 x 22.5 cm. Suzuribako / box with writing utensils, Japan, lacquer with maki-e, 20th ct. Slight traces of use. Crack to cover. 26 x 22.5 cm.

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KAJIKAWA: A FINE LACQUER SUZURIBAKO (WRITING BOX) DEPICTING BOYS AT PLAY KAJIKAWA: A FINE LACQUER SUZURIBAKO (WRITING BOX) DEPICTING BOYS AT PLAY By a member of the Kajikawa family, signed Kajikawa saku and with pot seal Ei Japan, Edo (Tokyo), 19th century, Edo period (1615-1868) Of rectangular form with a flush-fitting (inrobuta) cover and silver rims. The exterior with a gyobu nashiji ground, the cover with a shaped panel bearing a mirror-black ground, finely decorated in colored takamaki-e and hiramaki-e with three karako, two of which are mischievously drawing with brushes on their sleeping companion, an inkstone and lesson book on the ground beside them. The interior of the cover with a rich gold hirame ground similarly decorated with five boys wearing elaborate patterned robes, one riding a hobby horse, three playing musical instruments, and one standing behind a tsuitate (standing screen) depicting a misty mountain landscape superbly rendered in sumi-e togidashi-e and bearing the signature and seal of the Kano painter Isen'in (Naganobu, 1775-1828). The interior bearing a nashiji ground and fitted with a nine-section board (ita) with two raised sections above and below the inkstone (suzuri), the upper section cut with a recess for the lozenge-shaped gilt-copper and silver waterdropper (suiteki), signed underneath the inkstone KAJIKAWA saku [made by Kajikawa] with a red ‘tsubo’ seal Ei. SIZE 4.6 x 21 x 23 cm Condition: Very good condition with minor wear and few small losses to lacquer. Provenance: Christie’s, 18 September 2013, New York, lot 680. The Paul and Helen Anbinder Collection, acquired from the above. Paul Anbinder (b. 1940) is a retired editor who was a director at important publishers including Random House and Hudson Hills. Helen Anbinder (1942-2022) was an education administrator who ran the Inter-village Continuing Education Program for Ardsley, Dobbs Ferry, Hastings, and Irvington, New York. The couple were avid museumgoers and collectors of art. They donated many books and prints from their collection to their alma mater Cornell University and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. With a wood storage box (tomobako). The Kajikawa family were Japanese lacquerware artists whose school in Edo flourished for more than 200 years. Kyujiro is generally acknowledged as the founder of the family and the inaugurator of its traditions. He excelled in designing particularly delicate lacquer inro. Kajikawa artists also designed lacquer netsuke. Suzuribako by this school are considerably rarer than inro and netsuke. Museum comparison: Compare a lacquer suzuribako, also signed Kajikawa saku and with a red seal, in the collection of the Freer Gallery of Art in the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, accession number F1955.24a-e. Auction comparison: Compare a lacquer suzuribako, also signed Kajikawa saku and with a red pot seal, at Christie’s, 1 October 2020, New York, lot 21 ( sold for 18,750 USD).

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A FINE LACQUER SUZURIBAKO DEPICTING A SAMURAI A FINE LACQUER SUZURIBAKO DEPICTING A SAMURAI Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912) to Taisho period (1912-1926) Of rectangular form, bearing a lustrous roiro ground finely decorated to the flush-fitting cover with gold, orange, and brown takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, kirikane, and mura-nashiji, depicting a samurai riding his galloping horse. The base and interior with nashiji and gold fundame rims, the interior of the cover similarly decorated with another galloping samurai, the ita (baseboard) fitted with a hut-shaped waterdropper (suiteki) as well as an inkstone (suzuri). SIZE 19.7 x 17 x 3.1 cm With a wooden storage box. Condition: Very good condition with minor wear, minuscule losses, occasional light surface scratches, little warping to the lacquer, and a small touchup to one corner.

Estim. 400 - 800 EUR

A LACQUER SUZURIBAKO DEPICTING A RIVER LANDSCAPE A LACQUER SUZURIBAKO DEPICTING A RIVER LANDSCAPE Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912) to Taisho period (1912-1926), first half of 20th century Of rectangular form with rounded edges, the cover decorated in gold and silver hiramaki-e and with nashiji, depicting a pavilion and bridge at a rocky riverside, with prunus and pines and an aoi mon, all against a roiro ground. The reverse of the cover decorated in nashiji and gold hiramaki-e with a moon above misty clouds. The interior and inset tray of nashiji, fitted with a inkstone (suzuri) carved in the form of a gourd, and a nashiji lacquered writing brush and paper prick. SIZE 25.5 x 22.6 cm WEIGHT 1,109 g Condition: Presenting well, with minor wear and shallow scratches. The lid with some age cracks, few repairs along the rim with associated touch-ups, and one side with a split.

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