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Katalognummer: JAP1119-083 MICHIZUKI HANZAN: AN IMPORTANT ‘BIWA LUTE’ RYOSHIBAKO DOCUMENT BOX By Michizuki Hanzan (1743-1790), signed Ritsuo with seal Kann Japan, ca. 1770-1790, Edo period (1615-1868) Published: Stephen Little and Edmund J. Lewis View of the Pinnacle: Japanese Lacquer Writing Boxes: The Lewis Collection of Suzuribako. University of Hawai’i Press, 2011, catalogue number 54. Three-dimensional depiction of a four-stringed Biwa lute in high relief amid red and white chrysanthemum, their vines and leaves. The lute is executed with braided silver strings, superb motherof- pearl inlays on a black ground with a circumferential filigree border, a hinoki wood corpus with its sides in gold nashij and the neck of the lute cleverly extending beyond the edge of the lid well into the sides of the box. The flowers are made of porcelain with polychrome glazes of emerald green, tsuishu red, egg yolk yellow and white. Signed in gold RITSUO with pottery seal Kan - the usage of this inscription together with a white seal indicates that this work is by Michizuki Hanzan (1743-1790), a direct pupil of Ogawa Haritsu (1663-1747). SIZE 40.5 x 32 x 14 cm Condition: Very good and absolutely original condition. The background with intentional crackling and few minuscule losses, some of them touched-up, the largest being on the left side of the signature. Very minor losses of lacquer to the edges of the inside. Provenance: Ashkenazie & Co, San Franscisco, USA, 1996. Drs. Edmund and Julie Lewis, Chicago, USA, acquired from the above. Old collector label “Lewis Collection 76” to base. Little and Lewis have noted that the present lot is most likely by Michizuki Hanzan (1743-1790), but that there also is a distant possibility that it is by Sakai Kyozan or Miura Kenya. Schätzpreis 估價: € 8.000 Startpreis 起拍價: € 4.000 -