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Auction archive: Lot number 236

A JAPANESE GOLD LACQUER CABINET ( SHODANA )LATE EDO PERIOD (MID-19TH CENTURY)

Estimate
£20,000 - £30,000
ca. US$25,180 - US$37,770
Price realised:
£30,000
ca. US$37,770
Auction archive: Lot number 236

A JAPANESE GOLD LACQUER CABINET ( SHODANA )LATE EDO PERIOD (MID-19TH CENTURY)

Estimate
£20,000 - £30,000
ca. US$25,180 - US$37,770
Price realised:
£30,000
ca. US$37,770
Beschreibung:

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.)

Auction archive: Lot number 236
Auction:
Datum:
15 Jul 2020
Auction house:
Christie's
King Street, St. James's 8
London, SW1Y 6QT
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7839 9060
+44 (0)20 73892869
Beschreibung:

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.)

Auction archive: Lot number 236
Auction:
Datum:
15 Jul 2020
Auction house:
Christie's
King Street, St. James's 8
London, SW1Y 6QT
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7839 9060
+44 (0)20 73892869
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