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Tea Caddy with Wave Decor (T-4201)

Creator: Hattori Toshio
Offered by: Thomsen Gallery

Description
Hattori Toshio (b. 1943)
Tea Caddy with Wave Decor, mid-1980s
Maki-e silver and gold lacquer on wood with shell inlays
Size 2¼ x 3¼ x 3¼ in. (6 x 8.1 x 8.1 cm)

Hiranatsume (wide tea caddy), the turned-wood body decorated in shell mosaic superimposed with a fine gold hirame design of eight radiating bands extending from the center of the lid and down the sides, the interior and internal shoulders finished in silver lacquer with stylized waves in gold hiramaki-e, the rims gold lacquer, the base silver lacquer

Signed in gold hiramaki-e on the base Toshi

Comes with the original fitted kiri wood tomobako box inscribed Yōgai kinjimon chaki (Tea utensil with shell and decoration in gold) and signed Toshi with seal Toshi

Exhibited
Takashimaya Department Store Kyoto, solo exhibition, 1984

A prominent and now a senior figure in the world of Kyoto lacquer, Hattori Shunshō (his current art name) specializes in bold shell inlay, a medium pioneered by Kuroda Tatsuaki (1904–1982), combined with decoration in the maki-e (“sprinkled picture”) technique. Born in 1943, since 1963 Hattori has exhibited frequently at the Nitten national exhibition, winning many prizes. In 1975 he was selected by the Bunkachō (Agency for Cultural Affairs) to undertake a tour of Europe and the United States, studying etching in Sweden, working in Paris with the British artist S.W.Hayter, and attending workshops in New York. In 1995 he was granted an audience by His Holiness Pope John Paul II, to whom he presented a lacquered lectern. He has exhibited in the Netherlands, New York, and South Korea, and in 2005 was commissioned to create furniture for the Imperial Guest House in Kyoto.

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Notes:	Signed on bottom; signed on accompanying storage box
Origin:	Japan
Period:	1980-1999
Materials:	Maki-e silver and gold lacquer on wood with shell inlays
Condition:	Good. Excellent condition
Creation Date:	mid-1980s
Styles / Movements:	Modern, Asian
Patterns:	Asian/Oriental, Geometric, Handmade, Modern
Dealer Reference #:	T-4201
Incollect Reference #:	745324

Dimensions

H.	2.36 in;	Diam.	3.19 in;
H.	6 cm;	Diam.	8.1 cm;

Message from Seller:

Thomsen gallery, located in a townhouse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, offers important Japanese paintings and works of art to collectors and museums worldwide. The gallery specializes in Japanese screens and scrolls; in early Japanese tea ceramics from the medieval through the Edo periods; in masterpieces of ikebana bamboo baskets; and in gold lacquer objects.