Lot 408
TWO GILT AND BLACK LACQUER SMALL BOXES
MEIJI PERIOD
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art
Auction: 3 November 2023 from 09:00 GMT
Description
明治 金漆蒔絵料小方盒 共箱（共兩件）
one of canted square form, the cover and sides decorated in gold and silver with pine trees, bamboo grove and plum trees, the cover further adorned with a tortoise and crane in the foreground, the interior of the box with textile lining; the other three-tiered box of square form, supported on bracket feet, the cover and sides painted with various blossoming flowers; each with wooden tomobako
Dimensions
width: 7.6cm and 6.6cm
Provenance
Provenance: Private English collection, London; acquired by current owner’s great-aunt Etta May Gubbins (1871-1955) during her honeymoon trip in Yokohama in 1910. Etta May Gubbins married in 1909 at Kilmallock, Ireland to Captain Burston Beresford Gubbins (1876-1929), The 13th Hussars.
May Gubbins, nee May Gibson, was the eldest of the three daughters of Edmund Gibson who was born at Quernmore Park, near Lancaster in 1824, went out to New Zealand with his brother Wilson and staked a claim to about 20,000 acres of land in South Island and died at Otago in 1886.