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AN INLAID LACQUER BOX
SEALED TEIJI, EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)
The rectangular wood box with flush-fitting cover, decorated in gold and coloured lacquer and inlaid in ceramic and mother-of-pearl, the exterior with Raijin [God of Thunder] beating his drum in clouds on a knarled wood ground, the interior of the cover with a furin [wind chime] and an inlaid ceramic seal on a sparse nashiji ground
21.9 cm. long

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Teiji worked in Nagoya in the mid-19th century, one of a number of laquerers who took part in the so-called 'Ritsuo revival,' by using glazed pottery as well as, or in addition to, traditional techniques; other member of this group included Miura Ken'ya (1825-89) and Ito Kenkoku (b.1853).¹

1. E. A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists (Harehope, 1995), pp. 286-7; Honolulu Academy of Arts, Shadows and Reflections: Japanese Lacquer Art from the Collection of Edmund J. Lewis (Hong Kong, 1996), cat. no. 26.