Stationery Box in Kōdaiji style, early 17th century
Stationery Box in Kōdaiji style, Momoyama period (1573–1615), early 17th century, Japan, Gold- and silver-foil inlay, gold maki-e, on lacquered wood, H. 8 1/4 in. (21 cm); W. 17 15/16 in. ( cm), Lacquer, The bold combination of naturalistic landscape designs and scattered paulownia crests on contrasting diagonal fields divided by a zigzag border is characteristic of a distinctive style of Momoyama-period lacquer decoration known as Kōdaiji, which was current from the 1580s through the early seventeenth century
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