Inami Kirokusai II
Writing Box with Plum and Willow, 1950s
Maki-e silver and gold lacquer on wood with pewter inlays
Size 1¼ x 9½ x 5 in. (3.5 x 24 x 13 cm)
T-3978
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Further images
A wooden suzuribako (writing box) in elongated rectangular form with domed flush-fitting lid, the polished black-lacquer roiro ground decorated in gold and silver hiramaki-e and pewter with a vertically oriented...
A wooden suzuribako (writing box) in elongated rectangular form with domed flush-fitting lid, the polished black-lacquer roiro ground decorated in gold and silver hiramaki-e and pewter with a vertically oriented design of a budding willow tree and flowering plum tree, the design extending over the sides, the interior laid out in typical Rinpa style, with gold hiramaki-e decoration of five pine branches, the ink stone and silver suiteki (water-dropper) undecorated
Signed in gold hiramaki-e inside the lid Kirokusai 喜六斎 with a red kaō
With fitted wood tomobako storage box inscribed outside in ink Sōshun maki-e suzuribako 早春蒔絵硯筥 (Writing box with early-spring design); signed inside in ink Kirokusai 喜六斎 with stylized red seal Kirokusai喜六斎
A native of Wajima, Inami Kirokusai showed at many local and national exhibitions in Japan, as well as at the Chicago World’s Fair (1933–4), and was commissioned to make a set of furniture for Britain’s Prince of Wales.
The present writing box, very likely a New Year gift, is a fine example of the twentieth-century revival of the Rinpa lacquer style.
Signed in gold hiramaki-e inside the lid Kirokusai 喜六斎 with a red kaō
With fitted wood tomobako storage box inscribed outside in ink Sōshun maki-e suzuribako 早春蒔絵硯筥 (Writing box with early-spring design); signed inside in ink Kirokusai 喜六斎 with stylized red seal Kirokusai喜六斎
A native of Wajima, Inami Kirokusai showed at many local and national exhibitions in Japan, as well as at the Chicago World’s Fair (1933–4), and was commissioned to make a set of furniture for Britain’s Prince of Wales.
The present writing box, very likely a New Year gift, is a fine example of the twentieth-century revival of the Rinpa lacquer style.
Exhibitions
TEFAF 2018
Lak 2017
Lak 2016