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A Nanban Folding Lacquered Dais Table
36.2 x 56.5 x 43.5 cm
description
Exhib.: “Portugal, Jesuits, and Japan”, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston 2013 (cat. no. 42); “Nanban Commissions, The Portuguese in Modern Age Japan”, Museu do Oriente, Lisbon 2010 (cat. pp. 146 – 50)
Pub.: Impey, Oliver, Jörg, Christiaan J. A., “Japanese Export Lacquer, 1580 – 1850”, Amsterdam 2005, p. 196; Impey, Oliver, “After The Barbarians”, Lisbon 2003, pp. 78 – 83
This small and folding table of characteristic 16th C. Iberian prototype, features Nanban lacquered and gilt decoration of mother-of-pearl inlays and gilt copper mounts. On the top surface four elaborate cartouches of painted and pearl-shell inlaid floral and bird compositions are separated by complex pearl-shell bordered crosses within multiple geometric patterns borders. What seems to be the only other recorded table of similar shape and size, also dating from the Momoyama period (sold Christie’s London, 24.04.1994, lot 273), features an undivided top and plain, possibly later, legs.
Pub.: Impey, Oliver, Jörg, Christiaan J. A., “Japanese Export Lacquer, 1580 – 1850”, Amsterdam 2005, p. 196; Impey, Oliver, “After The Barbarians”, Lisbon 2003, pp. 78 – 83
This small and folding table of characteristic 16th C. Iberian prototype, features Nanban lacquered and gilt decoration of mother-of-pearl inlays and gilt copper mounts. On the top surface four elaborate cartouches of painted and pearl-shell inlaid floral and bird compositions are separated by complex pearl-shell bordered crosses within multiple geometric patterns borders. What seems to be the only other recorded table of similar shape and size, also dating from the Momoyama period (sold Christie’s London, 24.04.1994, lot 273), features an undivided top and plain, possibly later, legs.
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