Name: A LACQUER KOGO [INCENSE BOX]
Brand: MOMOYAMA PERIOD (LATE 16TH - EARLY 17TH CENTURY)
Price: 800.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

The Mike and Hiroko Dean Collection

A LACQUER KOGO [INCENSE BOX]
MOMOYAMA PERIOD (LATE 16TH - EARLY 17TH CENTURY)
With overhanging lid, the exterior sumi-aka [red lacquered cloth] ground, the cover and four sides flanked with shaped panels of black lacquer decorated in gold hiramaki-e, nashiji and harigaki with tsukegaki depicting maple leaves floating down a stream amongst surface eddies, the interior nashiji, fundame rims
2 5/8 in. (7.2 cm.) long

Literature:
Mike and Hiroko Dean, Nihon no Shikki Japanese Lacquer - an Exposition (Kyoto, 1984), no. 60

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For similar examples see Motoo Yoshimura, Kodaiji Makie (Kyoto, 1971), pl. 44a and 44b and N. K. Davey and Susan G. Tripp, The Garrett Collection, Japanese Art, Lacquer, Inro, Netsuke (London, 1993), no. 20.