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A matching set of suzuribako and ryoshibako, both with overhanging lids, decorated with auspicious motifs (takaramono). The lid of the suzuribako portrays the hat and cloak of invisibility and, on the reverse, stylized weights and crossed scrolls. The interior, decorated with branches of coral and a pearl, contains a black-lacquered wood ink-stone, a knife, a skewer, and two brushes, all decorated in gold fundame. The lacquered wood water-dropper echoes the hanabishi motif on the lid of the paper box. The outside of the ryoshibako portrays stylized weights symbolising trade and prosperity; the hanabishi floral motif within a rhomboid formed of arcs of a circle; and a stylized clove. These three motifs carry over to the sides and are repeated so that the design is complete when the lid is removed.
The Khalili Collections
London
Title
Writing Box and Paper Box (Suzuribako and Ryoshibako)
Date
c.1860–1870
Medium
hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, sabiagenuri, okibirame, keuchi & shell
Accession number
18
Work type
Sculpture
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