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Japanese, Edo Period

1603 – 1868

Chest with a flat lid. 1630/50

Wood, black enamel, gold decoration, mother-of-pearl and ray skin inlays; silver fittings (presumably from Nagasaki). 27 × 49,5 × 34 cm (10 ⅝ × 19 ½ × 13 ⅜ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork:  Japanese, Edo Period. Chest with a flat lid. 1630/50.

Estimate:

EUR 25,000

 

- 30,000

USD 26,700

 

- 32,000

Sold for:

50,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Spring Auctions 2017

ORANGERIE Selected Objects, Thursday, 01.06.2017

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Wood, black enamel, gold decoration, mother-of-pearl and ray skin inlays; silver fittings (presumably from Nagasaki). 27 × 49,5 × 34 cm (10 ⅝ × 19 ½ × 13 ⅜ in.). With two keys.

Private collection, Rhineland

Antje Papist-Matsuo: Brückenschlag von Ost nach West. Japanischer Exportlack aus vier Jahrhunderten. exh. cat., Münster, 2016, cat. no. 6, p. 42f

Auction: Paris, Sotheby's, 20 April 2012, cat. no. 65

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