Details
Decorated in gold, silver and brown takamaki-e and mother-of-pearl inlays on a roiro lacquer ground with imitation Japanese and Chinese coins suspended from chains, nashiji interiors and risers, gold rims
2¾ in. (7 cm.) high


Provenance
Collection of the late Soame Jenyns (1904-1976), then by descent within the family.
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Lot Essay

For a suzuribako similarly decorated with old coins, see James C. Y. Watt, East Asian Lacquer: The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, (New York, 1991), cat. no. 140, p. 275.

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