A COLLECTION OF JAPANESE LACQUER PIECES

A COLLECTION OF JAPANESE LACQUER PIECES
EDO AND LATER, 17TH/18TH CENTURY AND LATER

All variously decorated in gold hiramaki-e, kirikane and nashiji on a black roiro ground, comprising: a jubako (picnic box) modelled as a bamboo cage covered with butterflies, enclosing three trays and a rectangular container, with details rendered in iroe hiramaki-e and gold leaf; four variously-shaped boxes decorated with flowers and scrolling tendrils, some with mon, one with four tiers and another with a domed cover raised on an associated stand; and a small natsume (tea caddy) with many cranes in flight above pine, 24.2cm max. (25)

Provenance: the Tomkinson Family Collection.