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Accessory Box with Azalea and Vine (T-4340)

Creator: Reimei Utagawa
Offered by: Thomsen Gallery

Description
A rounded rectangular tebako (accessory box) with interior hanging tray, the exterior finished in polished black lacquer and decorated in raised gold, silver, and colored takamaki-e with a dense design of Japanese azalea, a Japanese white-eye perched on one of the stems; the interior with a design of wild mountain vine, in black and gold lacquer on a gold nashiji background, a grasshopper resting on one of the leaves; the base in gold nashiji, the rims in silver.

Signed on the base with gold hiramaki-e characters: Reimei saku (Made by Reimei).

The box comes with the original fitted kiri-wood tomobako storage box, which has an inscription inside dated to 1957 and a label of the Wako Department Store, Ginza, Tokyo.

A native of Aizu, Utagawa Remei had his work accepted by the Shinbunten national art exhibition in 1937, 1939, 1940, 1941, and 1946

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Origin:	Japan
Period:	1950-1979
Materials:	Maki-e gold, silver and colored lacquer on wood; silver rims
Condition:	Good. Excellent condition
Creation Date:	1957
Styles / Movements:	Modern, Asian
Patterns:	Animal/Insects, Asian/Oriental, Florals/Botanical
Dealer Reference #:	T-4340
Incollect Reference #:	563934

Dimensions

W.	10.67 in;	H.	5.04 in;	D.	12.91 in;
W.	27.1 cm;	H.	12.8 cm;	D.	32.8 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.