Lot 625: A lacquer cabinet

A lacquer cabinet
Meiji Period (circa 1900), signed Kawanobe Itcho (Genjiro; 1830-1910), Kawanobe Heiemon (Ikko; 1852-1926) and Funabashi Iwajiro (Shumin; 1859-after 1914)
A set of shelves set on four bracket feet and with slightly upcurved top, large rectangular shelf, middle rectangular shelf, smaller lower square shelves and two shelves enclosed by pairs of hinged doors, decorated on all the outer surfaces in varicolored gold and silver hiramaki-e, kirikane, nashiji, kinji and mother-of-pearl inlay on a black lacquer ground with sparsely sprinkled gold, decorated with ginko and maple leaves, autumn grasses, and various scenes of a famous boating excursion on the Oi (Katsura) River in Saga Arashiyama, the interiors of the doors also patterned in gold and silver hiramaki-e and mother-of-pearl inlay, the inner surfaces black lacquer with sparsely sprinkled gold, the exterior mounts all decorated with wisteria in gold-inlaid shakudo on the obverses and chiseled gold on the reverses; the cabinet signed in gold lacquer on the base with the three signatures of the lacquer artists
36 x 17 x 27¾in. (92.1 x 43 x 70.5cm.)
With original wood storage box

Paris, "Exposition Universelle," 1900

"Shelf Ornamented with Picture of Oigawa Boat Excursion," Bijutsu gaho Magasin des Beaux Arts Fine Arts Magazine, extra issue no. 2 (1900): unnumbered illustration. (The issue is devoted to the exhibits at the "Exposition Universelle" of 1900. The caption for the illustration of the cabinet appears in Japanese, English and French.)

A lacquer cabinet
Meiji Period (circa 1900), signed Kawanobe Itcho (Genjiro; 1830-1910), Kawanobe Heiemon (Ikko; 1852-1926) and Funabashi Iwajiro (Shumin; 1859-after 1914)
A set of shelves set on four bracket feet and with slightly upcurved top, large rectangular shelf, middle rectangular shelf, smaller lower square shelves and two shelves enclosed by pairs of hinged doors, decorated on all the outer surfaces in varicolored gold and silver hiramaki-e, kirikane, nashiji, kinji and mother-of-pearl inlay on a black lacquer ground with sparsely sprinkled gold, decorated with ginko and maple leaves, autumn grasses, and various scenes of a famous boating excursion on the Oi (Katsura) River in Saga Arashiyama, the interiors of the doors also patterned in gold and silver hiramaki-e and mother-of-pearl inlay, the inner surfaces black lacquer with sparsely sprinkled gold, the exterior mounts all decorated with wisteria in gold-inlaid shakudo on the obverses and chiseled gold on the reverses; the cabinet signed in gold lacquer on the base with the three signatures of the lacquer artists
36 x 17 x 27¾in. (92.1 x 43 x 70.5cm.)
With original wood storage box