A LACQUER BUNDAI [WRITING TABLE] AND SUZURIBAKO [WRITING BOX] Late Edo-Meiji Period (19th Century) The bundai of the usual form, the upper surface covered in black lacquer sparsely sprinkled with gold flakes and decorated in gold and silver hiramaki-e , takamaki-e [low- and high-relief lacquer] and other lacquer techniques with a bridge leading to the Sumiyoshi shrine (see also lot 48), with mountains, pine trees and a yagura [look-out tower], the metal fittings of silver, the legs finished in gold nashiji ['pearskin' lacquer]; the suzuribako also covered in black lacquer, decorated in gold, silver and coloured togidashi-e [flat, polished lacquer] with visitors to a shrine hung with ema [votive plaques], the interior with pines and flying cranes, fitted with a suiteki [water-dropper] worked in gold and shakudo [gold-copper alloy] with a pair of shishi [mythical lion-like creatures] and stone suzuri [inkstone] with gold lacquer rim set in a central panel, some scratches The bundai : 4 1/8 x 12 x 23¾in. (10.5 x 30.5 x 60.3cm.) The suzuribako : 2 3/16 x 10 x 9 7/16in. (5.5 x 25.5 x 24cm.)
A LACQUER BUNDAI [WRITING TABLE] AND SUZURIBAKO [WRITING BOX] Late Edo-Meiji Period (19th Century) The bundai of the usual form, the upper surface covered in black lacquer sparsely sprinkled with gold flakes and decorated in gold and silver hiramaki-e , takamaki-e [low- and high-relief lacquer] and other lacquer techniques with a bridge leading to the Sumiyoshi shrine (see also lot 48), with mountains, pine trees and a yagura [look-out tower], the metal fittings of silver, the legs finished in gold nashiji ['pearskin' lacquer]; the suzuribako also covered in black lacquer, decorated in gold, silver and coloured togidashi-e [flat, polished lacquer] with visitors to a shrine hung with ema [votive plaques], the interior with pines and flying cranes, fitted with a suiteki [water-dropper] worked in gold and shakudo [gold-copper alloy] with a pair of shishi [mythical lion-like creatures] and stone suzuri [inkstone] with gold lacquer rim set in a central panel, some scratches The bundai : 4 1/8 x 12 x 23¾in. (10.5 x 30.5 x 60.3cm.) The suzuribako : 2 3/16 x 10 x 9 7/16in. (5.5 x 25.5 x 24cm.)
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