λ A JAPANESE INLAID LACQUER BUNKO (DOCUMENT BOX)

λ A JAPANESE INLAID LACQUER BUNKO (DOCUMENT BOX)
EDO PERIOD, 18TH/19TH CENTURY
IN THE STYLE OF OGAWA HARITSU (RITSUO, 1663-1747)

The lid decorated with the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, the third-century Chinese Daoist scholars seemingly engaged in a lively debate, one yawning and another dozing off, all enclosed in a circular panel lower right corner, with bamboo branches and silver clouds above; the sides decorated with scholarly objects including a handscroll, a nyoi (sceptre), a fan and reishi fungi; all elaborately rendered in a variety of materials including porcelain, mother of pearl, lead and lacquer; the inside decorated in god nashiji; a small green porcelain seal mark reading Kan, 13cm x 26.4cm x 22.2cm. (2)