kogubako
Gold laquer takamakie and kirikane - nashiji inside. The rectangular box has a lid in gilt lacquer on which stands a relief decoration depicting a night full moon over the sea. On the left highlight gold in the hills that descend steeply to the beach, you see a shrine. Four sides the night landscape is rendered with a fund from which black lacquer stand respectively a large pine tree, a long bridge and boats in the distance. The decorative richness and complexity of this case expresses a feeling of intense expectation, the artist has expressed with regard to the connotations of nature to represent the enchanting atmosphere of moonlight and silent splendor chose muted gold semi and gave the feeling of slight haze on the horizon that makes the sky slightly opaque and becomes brighter upward to effect the full moon.
Edo period early XVIII century
Japan
Gold laquer takamakie and kirikane - nashiji inside. The rectangular box has a lid in gilt lacquer on which stands a relief decoration depicting a night full moon over the sea. On the left highlight gold in the hills that descend steeply to the beach, you see a shrine. Four sides the night landscape is rendered with a fund from which black lacquer stand respectively a large pine tree, a long bridge and boats in the distance. The decorative richness and complexity of this case expresses a feeling of intense expectation, the artist has expressed with regard to the connotations of nature to represent the enchanting atmosphere of moonlight and silent splendor chose muted gold semi and gave the feeling of slight haze on the horizon that makes the sky slightly opaque and becomes brighter upward to effect the full moon. - Schreiber Collezioni