A FINE LACQUER ZUSHI-DANA

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

细节

A FINE LACQUER ZUSHI-DANA
Decorated in gold and silver hiramakie, takamakie, hirame, gold foil on a nashiji ground with each tier depicting cranes and minogame among plum blossom, pine and bamboo on rocky banks beside a meandering stream with interspersed mon, the construction of recognised form with two double door compartments on two levels, the elaborate copper gilt kanagu finely engraved with mon, the interior of the upper doors with Jo and Uba, the panels to the reverse similarly decorated to the shelves, (some old wear and damage), late 17th/early 18th century
71.5cm. high

拍品专文

The above zushi-dana forms a part of the san-dana, 'Three shelves', three formal accoutrements of a feudal lord, the other two being the kuro-dana and sho-dana. The zushi-dana is a three-tiered shelf with rolled-edge top, openwork designs on the side panels, legs undercut in contour motifs, and double-door compartments on two levels. As the most elegant of the three, the zushi-dana was always prominently placed. Decorum dictated that the shelves hold a series of writing supply boxes, a small box (tebako), a box for narrow-format (tanzaku) papers (o-tanzaku-bako), a box for square-format (shikishi) papers (shikishi-bako), letter boxes (fubako), a box for ceremonial tie-strings (mizuhiki-bako), a writing box (suzuribako), and a stationery box (ryoshi-bako) and a complete set of incense utensils, incense boxes (jin-bako and ko-bako), an incense utensils tray (ko-bon) and incense censer (hitori-koro)