JAPANESE STAINED HARDWOOD, PAINTED COMPOSITION AND METAL MOU...

Estimate

£1,000 - £2,000

JAPANESE STAINED HARDWOOD, PAINTED COMPOSITION AND METAL MOUNTED CABINET ON STAND,
BY SHINOHARA SAIRYUGYOKU, MEIJI PERIOD, fitted with an arrangement of seven drawers with an assortment of metal handles, two cast as bats, around twin sliding panel doors, decorated with relief moulded polychrome figural scenes of groups of Rakan (Arhats), a lift out panel front to a further compartment with recessed and applied carved wood landscape, modelled in the round with a figure beneath a tree, the panel reverse with inscribed character signature; the carved hardwood and metal mounted two tier stand with scrollwork galleries, on stylised stop-fluted supports to cabriole legs with ball and claw feet,  169cm high, 84cm wide, 48cm deep

Note: Shinohara Sairyugyoku was a member of the Tokyo Chokokai (artisan carvers' guild) and is listed in the 'Tokyo Meiko Kagami' issued in Meiji 12 (1879) as working at the age of 51. His original name was Yamashita Gennosuke

PROVENANCE: A Prominent Scottish collection