A Negoro red- and black-lacquer heishi (ritual sake bottle)


Muromachi (1333-1573) or Momoyama (1573-1615) period, 16th centuryA turned-wood heishi (ritual sake bottle) of standard Negoro-lacquer form, painted in red lacquer on a black-lacquer ground with two cranes, pine and bamboo, and with smaller plants around the foot; with an inscribed wooden storage box. 41.5cm (16¼in) high, internal cavity 20.7cm (8¼in) deep. (2).
|For a similar example (possibly the pair to the present lot), see Tokyo Bijutsu Kurabu (Tokyo Art Club) Yamamura Koka gahaku shozohin nyusatsu (Auction catalogue of the collection of painter Yamamura Koka), 17 December 1940, lot 110.