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A Set of Ten Lidded Lacquer Bowls with Plant MotifsBy Kiyokawa, Edo period (1603-1868), 19th century The ten suimonowan of lacquered wood, with a plain brown/black exterior and an individual plant depicted in hiramaki-e on the interior of the bowl and cover, including iris, plum blossom, bush clover, nandina, lily, narcissus, cherry blossom, bell flower, golden lace, and adonis ramosa, each bowl signed in lacquer in the interior of the foot Kiyokawa-saku (10) With a wood tomobako storage box and two fabric sleeves 4 1/2in (11.4cm) diameter, eachFootnotesProvenance Tokyo Art Club purchase, 1970-73 The inscription on the interior lid of the storage box states that the flower motifs were originally Sakai Hoitsu's designs as recorded by Suzuki Kiitsu, and made by Kiyokawa in the third month of 1827 during the Bunsei era.