Carved swirling line motif, twining across the entire surface of the cylindrical box and cover. Ten layers of black, red, and yellow lacquers.
Provenance: Edward Gilbertson Collection (New Zealand), sold at Glendining&Co Ltd (4 Argyll Street, London) in the 1930s.
Similar example in the Seatle Art Museum: Cf. Fuller, Richard: Japanese Art in the Seattle Art Museum, 1960, No. 183. - Seattle Art Museum, Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection (Inv. 49.88).
Victoria and Albert Museum, London: Cf. Garner, Harry: in Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society vol.31 (1957-59), pp. 61-73, pl. 20ff.
Comparable example: Cf.Chinese and Associated Lacquer from the Garner Collection, British Museum
exh.cat. 1973, no. 22, p. 24, pl. 9a.
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