Silver lacquer incense box with daikoku
Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891)
A rectangular silver lacquer kōbako (incense box) decorated in gold, silver and black taka-maki-e with the design of Daikoku having a smoke, sitting on a pounding pestle at a rural house, a single mouse appearing on the edge of round window, the design continues around four sides, depicting a treasure sack and a magic mallet on a oxidized silver ground with charcoal powder applied unevenly for effect. The interior of the same silver lacquer with charcoal powder. The bamboo window frame engraved in katakiri-bori.
Signed on the base Zeshin in scratched characters
Meiji era (1868-1912), circa 1870
Height 2.9 x 5.4 x 8 cm
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