A negoro lacquer bowl 'Koban'
Lot-No. 334
Japan, 16th/17th cent. Black and red lacquer on a wooden body. Round serving plate on a high wide foot. Bowl and exterior of the foot in red lacquer, the interior in black lacquer. Lip min. rest. In inscribed tomobako. H. 8 cm. - Compare to a nearly identical piece in the exhibition catalogue of the Okura Museum of Art: Special Exhibition: Negoro, Tokyo, 2010, p.79, nr.48, and the catalogue of the Metropolitan Museum of Art: East Asian Lacquer, The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, New York, 1992, p.184-185, nr. 76.
A negoro lacquer bowl 'Koban'
A negoro lacquer bowl 'Koban'
Lot-No. 334
Japan, 16th/17th cent. Black and red lacquer on a wooden body. Round serving plate on a high wide foot. Bowl and exterior of the foot in red lacquer, the interior in black lacquer. Lip min. rest. In inscribed tomobako. H. 8 cm. - Compare to a nearly identical piece in the exhibition catalogue of the Okura Museum of Art: Special Exhibition: Negoro, Tokyo, 2010, p.79, nr.48, and the catalogue of the Metropolitan Museum of Art: East Asian Lacquer, The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, New York, 1992, p.184-185, nr. 76.