A FINE IMPERIAL LACQUER SUZURIBAKO [WRITING BOX] SIGNED KAWANOBE IPPO KINSEI, MEIJI PERIOD, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A FINE IMPERIAL LACQUER SUZURIBAKO [WRITING BOX]

SIGNED KAWANOBE IPPO KINSEI

MEIJI PERIOD, LATE 19^TH CENTURY

the rectangular writing box with overhanging cover and rounded corners, decorated in gold and black hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, hirame and nashiji and inlaid in mother-of-pearl, with bush clover entwined among bamboo fences on a black ground, the stream continuing onto the sides of the box, the interior in gold hiramaki-e and takamaki-e with wild pinks beside a meandering stream, the inner frame holding the slate inkstone and a shakudo water-dropper in the form of a rock, the interior of the cover with the stream continuing its meander among further wild pinks on a dense nashiji ground, silver rims, fitted with two brushes, paper pricker, knife and ink cake holder

25.7 x 22.5 x 5 cm, 10 1/8 x 8 7/8 x 2 in.