Estimate

4.000 - 6.000

Session

8 May 2026

Description

Japan, Edo period, 19th century

Of elongated, gently arched form with rounded corners, with silk braided cord and spherical ojime

Decorated in gold, red and black lacquer with hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, kirikane, hirame and togidashi-e

The exterior with a continuous courtly landscape extending across the cases, depicting a gosho-guruma (court carriage) partially concealed amid vegetation, beneath cherry blossom branches, by undulating banks and a flowing river

The composition continuing along the sides, dominated by flowering branches reaching over the water

The interiors in nashiji and the rims in fundame



日本 江户时代（十九世纪） 莳绘漆五段印笼，以金、红、黑漆作平莳绘、高莳绘、切金、平目及研出莳绘技法，描绘樱花树下御所车与流水风景，内施梨子地，口缘施金溜涂

9,3x4,2 cm

Additional Information

Provenance:

Christie's, The Japanese Aesthetic, London, 15 May 2013, lot 431



Exhibited:

Japan - Lacquer which Crossed the Ocean, 28 October to 13 November 2007, Hishio (The Centre for Cultural Exchange), Katsuyama, Okayama Prefecture; Bitchu Urushi and Lacquer which Crossed the Ocean, 8 to 13 January 2008, Santa Gallery, Okayama City



Literature:

Japanese Lacquer Art - An Exposition, Kyoto, 1984, no. 105