A JAPANESE LACQUERWARE WRITING BOX (SUZURIBAKO) A JAPANESE LACQUERWARE WRITING BOX (SUZURIBAKO) A JAPANESE LACQUERWARE WRITING BOX (SUZURIBAKO) A JAPANESE LACQUERWARE WRITING BOX (SUZURIBAKO)

A JAPANESE LACQUERWARE WRITING BOX (SUZURIBAKO)

Reference: ART2001463

A lacquerware writing box (suzuribako) dark lacquered with rounded corners and decorated in gold maki-e lacquer with a bamboo grove design. Inside its lid and at the bottom of the writing box decorated with a design of thatched farmhouses in Kōrin-style. In silver and gold maki-e lacquer and mother-of-pearl inlay work. It containes a waterdropper and an inkstone. Signed: Mitsuyoshi (Matsuzawa) Mitsuyoshi Workshop from Takayama, Gifu Province) In a signed box. Early Showa Period.