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Japanese, Edo Period

1603 – 1868

Vanity vase with red edges – Sumiaka Tebako. 18th/19th Century

black and red lacquer; gold leaf powder and textile on wood; copper sheet. 35 × 40 × 38,5 cm (13 ¾ × 15 ¾ × 15 ⅛ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork:  Japanese, Edo Period. Vanity vase with red edges – Sumiaka Tebako. 18th/19th Century.

Estimate:

EUR 3,000

 

- 5,000

USD 3,530

 

- 5,890

Sold for:

2,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 2017

ORANGERIE Selected Objects, Thursday, 30.11.2017

Information

black and red lacquer; gold leaf powder and textile on wood; copper sheet. 35 × 40 × 38,5 cm (13 ¾ × 15 ¾ × 15 ⅛ in.). A crack within the inner corner of the case.

Related literature and comparable objects: related literature: Beatrix of Ragué: Geschichte der japanischen Lackkunst. Berlin, 1967, p. 227, ill. 142 / Christine Shimizu: Les Laques du Japon. Paris, 1988, p. 184 / James C. Watt and Barbara Brennan Ford: East Asian Lacquer. The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection. New York, 1991, p. 223, no. 103 / Antje Papist-Matsuo: A Japanese Taste for Lacquer. Eine japanische Leidenschaft. The Klaus F. Naumann Collection. Berlin, 2006, p. 60– 63, no. 20 and 21 (inv. no. 2009-71 and 71). Supplement: with the invoice of Kunsthandel Yokohama to Lynch dated 1 March 1961 (in the original).

Captain Joseph J. Lynch (1911–1988), USA (acquired in 1961 at Kunsthandlung Yokohama Inc., Kyoto) / private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia

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