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THE SOAME JENYNS COLLECTION OF JAPANESE AND CHINESE ART
AN UNUSUAL JAPANESE LACQUER BOX FOR THE DUTCH MARKET

EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY)

    Price Realised GBP 20,000
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    GBP 1,200 - GBP 1,800
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    AN UNUSUAL JAPANESE LACQUER BOX FOR THE DUTCH MARKET

    EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY)

    Price Realised GBP 20,000
    Price Realised GBP 20,000
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    In the form of a melon and decorated in gold takamaki-e and hiramaki-e on a black lacquer ground with four variously shaped cartouches enclosing pavilions in a landscape, butterflies among chrysanthemum, peony and flowers, reserved on a gold ground, with gilt-metal lock and hinged cover, nashiji interior
    8¼ in. (21.5 cm.) wide


    Provenance
    Collection of the late Soame Jenyns (1904-1976), then by descent within the family.
    Literature
    For a chrysanthemum-shaped box decorated in a similar style in the Peabody Essex Museum Salem (inv. AE 89577), see Oliver Impey and Christiaan Jorg, Japanese Export Lacquer 1580-1850, cat. no. 168, p. 103.
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