A JAPANESE GOLD LACQUER CABINET (SHODANA) LATE EDO PERIOD (MID-19TH CENTURY) The fine gold lacquer cabinet comprising three shelves, three sets of sliding doors, nine variously-sized drawers and two hinged doors which open to reveal a further shelf and pair of sliding doors; the cabinet decorated overall in gold, black and silver low-relief lacquer (hiramaki-e), high-relief lacquer (takamaki-e), hirame, kirikane and inlaid in shakudo against a kinji ground, the doors and drawers with intricate scenes from The Twenty-Four Paragons of Filial Piety, the hinged doors with lower panels depicting mythical kirin to the outside, the interior of the doors with an elephant and a young boy hoeing a field with birds, the sides and reverse decorated with cranes in flight over hills and pine trees; the shelves with scattered Tokugawa mon on a nashiji ground; applied with engraved metalwork mounts with applied mon, the drawers with engraved silvered fittings, the interior of one door signed Harui and sealed Sei (Harui Seizaburo) 117 (H) x 107 (W) x 49.7 cm. (D) (46 x 42 1/8 x 19 ½ in.)
A JAPANESE GOLD LACQUER CABINET (SHODANA) LATE EDO PERIOD (MID-19TH CENTURY) The fine gold lacquer cabinet comprising three shelves, three sets of sliding doors, nine variously-sized drawers and two hinged doors which open to reveal a further shelf and pair of sliding doors; the cabinet decorated overall in gold, black and silver low-relief lacquer (hiramaki-e), high-relief lacquer (takamaki-e), hirame, kirikane and inlaid in shakudo against a kinji ground, the doors and drawers with intricate scenes from The Twenty-Four Paragons of Filial Piety, the hinged doors with lower panels depicting mythical kirin to the outside, the interior of the doors with an elephant and a young boy hoeing a field with birds, the sides and reverse decorated with cranes in flight over hills and pine trees; the shelves with scattered Tokugawa mon on a nashiji ground; applied with engraved metalwork mounts with applied mon, the drawers with engraved silvered fittings, the interior of one door signed Harui and sealed Sei (Harui Seizaburo) 117 (H) x 107 (W) x 49.7 cm. (D) (46 x 42 1/8 x 19 ½ in.)
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