A SILVER AND GOLD MAKI-E LACQUER YUTO AND COVER
Provenance
Private Collection: London, UKLiterature
COMPARE:
Yuto in negoro lacquer, illus. East Asian Lacquer: The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1991), fig. 82
For this lacquer, see the basin of c. 1620 formerly in the Musée de la Marine, the Louvre, now in the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, Paris (71.1946.47.115 D)
An example of this style and lacquer technique can be found on a basin dated to 1620 formerly in the Musée de la Marine of the Louvre Paris, and now in the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, Paris (71.1946.47.115 D)
A yuto in negoro lacquer is illustrated in East Asian Lacquer:The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1991), fig. 82.
Pouring vessels such as this were used in Zen temples.