Hiradate Shū
Document Box with Prunus-Blossom Design, ca 1936
Maki-e gold lacquer and carved lacquer
Size 8 x 15 x 11½ in. (20.5 x 38 x 29.5 x cm)
T-4834
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Rectangula bunko (document box) with flush-fitting lid and beveled ledges, the decoration in sunk-relief carved lacquer with details in gold maki-e, depicting a dense mass of prunus-blossom, leaves, and stalks;...
Rectangula bunko (document box) with flush-fitting lid and beveled ledges, the decoration in sunk-relief carved lacquer with details in gold maki-e, depicting a dense mass of prunus-blossom, leaves, and stalks; the edges finished in gold hirame flakes, the inner rims and risers in matte gold fundame lacquer, the interior and base in gold nashiji.
Comes with the original paulownia-wood tomobako storage box, the exterior inscribed and signed: Umehana zu bunko Hiradate Shū (Document box with prunus-blossom design made by Hiradate Shū); document signed Nitten Shinsain Hiradate Shū umehana zu bunko Nitten shuppinsaku (Document box with prunus-blossom design made by Hiradate Shū, member of the Nitten Exhibition Jury, work shown at the Nitten exhibition)
A very closely related example of this work in the same style and technique, but with bowed sides and depicting different flowers, was shown at the Teiten National Art Exhibition of 1936.
(SeeHistory of the National Salon 12, Tokyo, Nitten, 1984, p. 190, no. 180)
Comes with the original paulownia-wood tomobako storage box, the exterior inscribed and signed: Umehana zu bunko Hiradate Shū (Document box with prunus-blossom design made by Hiradate Shū); document signed Nitten Shinsain Hiradate Shū umehana zu bunko Nitten shuppinsaku (Document box with prunus-blossom design made by Hiradate Shū, member of the Nitten Exhibition Jury, work shown at the Nitten exhibition)
A very closely related example of this work in the same style and technique, but with bowed sides and depicting different flowers, was shown at the Teiten National Art Exhibition of 1936.
(SeeHistory of the National Salon 12, Tokyo, Nitten, 1984, p. 190, no. 180)