Lot 379 Dα

A fan-shaped tray. Wood and lacquer. 19th century

On five low feet with a low rim. In gold and silver makie a group of sparrows in the air and sitting on the thatched roof of a fence with an entrace gate, to the left high-growing bamboo, all on nashiji. With an old box with four paper labels reading ôgi katachi... (fan-shaped) ...; Senmen katachi suzuri-bon nashiji suzum e... (fan-shaped tray for inkstone, nashiji, sparrows ...) and makie senmen katachi jikubon (makie fan-shaped tray for scrolls) and a collector's label 204 nashiji senmen jikubon.
Height 3.6 cm; length 47.8 cm