A Japanese Export 'nagasaki' Black Lacquer and Mother-of-Pearl-Inlaid Cabinet On Stand
LATE EDO PERIOD, CIRCA 1850
Height: 34" Width: 21.5" Depth: 15.5"
Inventory Number 8378-2096
Price
$28,000
Description
The two doors opening to six small drawers; on a conforming stand having cabriole legs joined by a shaped platform stretcher inlaid with floral sprays.
Illustrated
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Additional Information
Nagasaki, the technique of colorful shell inlay on a black lacquer ground, was produced under Dutch instruction in Nagasaki from the late eighteenth century. The colorful decoration of floral and bird motifs closely follow the conventional Nagasaki designs of the period.
A similar example of this style of cabinet resides in the Kobe City Museum, Kobe, Japan; see O. Impey & C. Jörg, Japanese Export Lacquer 1580-1850, Amsterdam, 2005, p. 214, ill. 517.