λ A RARE JAPANESE ROSEWOOD BOX AND COVER BY DEME TAIMAN

λ A RARE JAPANESE ROSEWOOD BOX AND COVER BY DEME TAIMAN
EDO PERIOD, 18TH/19TH CENTURY

Of rectangular shape, the cover decorated with three Noh masks carved in high relief on a dense sayagata ground, the pattern extending to the side and base; the inside of the lid signed Deme Taiman saku with kaō, 3cm x 6cm x 9cm. (2)

Provenance: formerly in the collection of J G Dalgliesh (1887-1940), and W W Winkworth (1897-1991).

Cf. F Meinertzhagen, The Meinertzhagen Card Index on Netsuke in the Archives of the British Museum, Part A, p.41 where this very box is described.