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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
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May 11, 2017 | Bonhams | London | Fine Japanese Art | 236 | $****** - ****** | A MATCHING SET OF LACQUERED SUZURIBAKO (BOX FOR WRITING UTENSILS) AND RYOSHIBAKO (DOCUMENT BOX) WITH DECORATION OF PLUM BLOSSOM, AUTUMN PLANTS, AND POEMS FROM THE KOKINSHU ANTHOLOGY |
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Of standard rectangular form with rounded chiri-i (edges) and inrobuta (flush-fitting lids), entirely covered in black lacquer and decorated mainly in gold, silver, and coloured hiramaki-e and takamaki-e, with gold hirame, kinpun, and nashiji and silver sheet; depicting on the lid of the suzuribako a blossoming plum tree next to a garden fence by a stream, on the reverse of the lid three overlapping shikishi (square sheets of decorated paper), the uppermost sheet with autumn plants including hagi (bush clover, Lespedeza bicolor) and susuki (plume grass, Miscanthus sinensis), the middle sheet with dyed-paper designs, the lowest sheet with characters from poem 219 from the tenth-century Kokinwakashu anthology (see below), the interior of the box of dense gold nashiji, fitted with a complete set of writing utensils finished in gold nashiji and silver, a partially gold-lacquered suzuri (ink stone) and a silver suiteki (water-dropper) in the form of two plum blossoms; the exterior of the ryoshibako with a blossoming plum tree by a stream, the moon, and clouds, the reverse of the lid with three tanzaku (long rectangular sheets of decorated paper) inscribed with poems 40, 90, and 243 from the Kokinwakashu anthology (see below); silver rims; the other surfaces gold nashiji; each unsigned; each with a lacquered-wood inscribed storage box. (13).
