A RARE JAPANESE BURRWOOD AND BLACK LACQUER CABINET EDO PERIO...

Estimate

£5,000 - £8,000

A RARE JAPANESE BURRWOOD AND BLACK LACQUER CABINET
EDO PERIOD, 1640-1690
日本江户时期 黑漆箱
the hinged top surmounted by a secret slkiding compartment, and opening to reveal a void interior with central mirror, bleow are a pair of doors enclosing an arrangement of three drawers, all flanked and divided by metal-mounted and gilt decorated black lacquer facings and turned columns, the whole raised on a later black lacquer stand
45cm wide, 41cm high, 36.5cm deep & 117cm high (including stand)

NOTE: For related cabinets see: Japanese Export Lacquer 1580-1850, by Oliver Impey & Christiaan Jörg, fig. 388a and 391 - 398.