JAPON - Lot 417

JAPON A rare small "Sagedansu" incense box with profiled edges (kara-tomen) in lacquered wood with a black background, quadrangular in shape and opening on the front with three drawers, it is decorated on all sides in maki-e gold with naturalistic motifs: on one side, geese in flight near a river, one side features geese in flight near a river, crowned cranes near a flowering prunus, owls perched on a tree near a river and a sparrow on bamboo branches, another on vine branches near a pond. The interior features gilded swallows on black lacquer. The lock, original key and fittings are silver. Edo period, 18th century. H: 10 - W: 14 - D: 8.5 cm Bears on the reverse a Glacow, Art Galleries & Museums label and the numbers 67 and 05. Three small incense boxes from the Edo period were in the collection of the Cabinet doré of Queen Marie-Antoinette at Versailles, and are described in the inventory of October 10, 1789.