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. (45.6 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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Stationery Box, Kōdaiji style, Momoyama period, 1573–1615, early 17th century, Japan, Gold, silver-foil inlay, gold maki-e, lacquered wood, H, 8 1/4, 21 cm, W, 17 15/16, 45.6, Lacquer, bold, combination, naturalistic landscape, designs, scattered paulownia, crests, contrasting diagonal, fields, divided, zigzag border, characteristic, distinctive, Momoyama-period lacquer, decoration, Kōdaiji, current, 1580s, seventeenth, century
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