A Lacquer Writing Box ( Suzuribako ) Meiji Period (late 19th Century), with signature Hokkyo Korin zo The domed-cover designed in Rimpa style with boats laden with brushwood on turbulent water, the boats inlaid in pewter and the caps of the waves in silvered-metal, the rest of the water gold hiramaki-e on a glossy black ground and the brushwood gold takamaki-e and hiramaki-e , the underside of the cover with two triple-comma roundels in pewter and a stream in gold takamaki-e on a fundame ground; the interior of the lower box matching; fitted with a rectangular inkstone, in the well beneath the inkstone inscribed Hokkyo Korin zo in raised gold lacquer; also fitted with a rectangular, shallow copper water dropper, and one writing brush, an ink stick holder and a knife lacquered in kinpun on a black ground 95/8 x 9 x 4in (24.5 x 22.8 x 10.1cm.)
A Lacquer Writing Box ( Suzuribako ) Meiji Period (late 19th Century), with signature Hokkyo Korin zo The domed-cover designed in Rimpa style with boats laden with brushwood on turbulent water, the boats inlaid in pewter and the caps of the waves in silvered-metal, the rest of the water gold hiramaki-e on a glossy black ground and the brushwood gold takamaki-e and hiramaki-e , the underside of the cover with two triple-comma roundels in pewter and a stream in gold takamaki-e on a fundame ground; the interior of the lower box matching; fitted with a rectangular inkstone, in the well beneath the inkstone inscribed Hokkyo Korin zo in raised gold lacquer; also fitted with a rectangular, shallow copper water dropper, and one writing brush, an ink stick holder and a knife lacquered in kinpun on a black ground 95/8 x 9 x 4in (24.5 x 22.8 x 10.1cm.)
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