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THBBrown and Gold Lacquer Knife Box
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LiveMar 5, 2025
Marc J. Matz has been a prominent antiques dealer for over forty years, specializing in works of art from the China Trade, Colonial India, the Dutch East Indies, Japanese Export, and Southeast Asia. Many pieces have passed from his hands to major museums and private collectors. This magnificent single-owner estate collection showcases outstanding examples of the decorative arts from his wide range of interests, including paintings, silver, furniture, Buddhist sculpture, as well as an outstanding collection of Chinese Bencharong porcelain. New England Auctions info@newenglandauctions.com
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Brown and Gold Lacquer Knife Box.
Japanese Export, Edo Period, ca. 1799-1801, brown and gold lacquer knife box, with bowed-front, decorated in Kyoto-Nagasaki style with sparse long-tail ho-o birds and scattered flowers in gold lacquer on a brownish-gold nashiji lacquer ground; with a reddish velvet interior; engraved copper escutcheon and side handles.
H 14-1/2 in. W 8-3/4 in. D 8 in.
A closely related knife box, very likely from the same Kyoto/Nagasaki workshop, was brought back to Salem, by the American ship captain, James Devereau, who made the first voyage to Japan by an American ship, on the Boston ship Franklin in 1799. (Now in the collection of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem.). Devereau’s Franklin entered Japanese waters, specifically Deshima, under a Dutch flag, the only country allowed at that date, to trade with the Japanese. In an intriguing story, Devereau involved in private trade, brought back an abundance of Japanese inlaid lacquerwares and furniture, and apparently opened a lacquerware concern in Salem. Scholars have suggested, that it was Devereau, who seems to be the first Westerner to introduce the concept of having European-style furniture made and lacquered in Japan. His 1799 voyage coincided with the founding of the East India Marine Society in Salem, and his were some of the first gifts to the Society, objects which are now part of the core collection of the Peabody Essex Museum.
Literature: Oliver Impey & Christian Jörg, Japanese Export Lacquer/ 1580-1850, Hotei Publishing, Amsterdam, 2005, page 325, 327, no. 632.
Condition: Restoration to top of lid.
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