A LACQUER BOX Edo period (1615-1868), 18th century
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A LACQUER BOX Edo period (1615-1868), 18th century Rectangular with a domed inrōbuta (flush-fitting) lid decorated with courtiers in a pavilion with autumn grasses in gold hiramaki-e and nashiji agains a roiro-nuri ground, the interior hirame 7 x 6 x 2in (17.8 x 15.4 x 5cm) Footnotes: Published Henri L. Joli, W. L. Behrens Collection, Part II: Lacquer and Inro, London, 1912, pl. III, no. 8 Stephen Little and Edmund J. Lewis, View of the Pinnacle: Japanese Lacquer Writing Boxes: The Lewis Collection of Suzuribako, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2011, cat. no. 5 Provenance W. L. Behrens Collection Madame Marthe Couvelaire Collection For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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