JAPAN, EDO PERIOD, 18TH CENTURY

Details

A LACQUER 'HEN AND CHICK' BOX AND COVER
JAPAN, EDO PERIOD, 18TH CENTURY
Modelled as a hen with two chicks, decorated in gold, black and red takamaki-e and hiramaki-e with finely detailed feathers, inlaid eyes and a nashiji interior
5 7/8 in. (15 cm.) long

Provenance

Acquired from the London trade, 11 October 2012.

Conditions of sale

Brought to you by

Amelia Walker Director, Specialist Head of Private & Iconic Collections

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Lot Essay

The present lot may be compared with a model of a cockerel in the collection of the French Queen Marie-Antoinette, illustrated by Monika Kopplin in Les lacques du Japan, Collections de Marie-Antoinette, Versailles, 2001, p. 186, no. 56, where it is mentioned in the Queen's inventory from the 10th October 1789.

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