A fine lacquer suzuribako (writing box) Meiji (1868-1912) or Taisho (1912-1926) era, late 19th/early 20th century The shallow, rectangular box decorated in gold and silver togidashi maki-e, hiramaki-e, hirame and nashiji with a tangled spiderweb on blossoming autumn grasses and flowers, the character kumo (spider) at the center, the interior decorated in nashiji and fitted with a circular inkstone and rectangular silver water dropper set into a rectangular saucer 6 7/8 x 6 1/4 x 1 1/8in (17.5 x 16 x 3cm) Fußnoten Published Stephen Little and Edmund J. Lewis View of the Pinnacle: Japanese Lacquer Writing Boxes: The Lewis Collection of Suzuribako, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2011, cat. no.56
A fine lacquer suzuribako (writing box) Meiji (1868-1912) or Taisho (1912-1926) era, late 19th/early 20th century The shallow, rectangular box decorated in gold and silver togidashi maki-e, hiramaki-e, hirame and nashiji with a tangled spiderweb on blossoming autumn grasses and flowers, the character kumo (spider) at the center, the interior decorated in nashiji and fitted with a circular inkstone and rectangular silver water dropper set into a rectangular saucer 6 7/8 x 6 1/4 x 1 1/8in (17.5 x 16 x 3cm) Fußnoten Published Stephen Little and Edmund J. Lewis View of the Pinnacle: Japanese Lacquer Writing Boxes: The Lewis Collection of Suzuribako, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2011, cat. no.56
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