JAPANESE NEGORO FOOTED CEREMONIAL BASIN, ASHITSUKI-DARAI
MOMOYAMA-EARLY EDO PERIOD, 16TH-17TH CENTURY
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000
Auction: 08 November 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
安土桃山至江戶 根来足付盥
of turned and assembled wood, the exterior of slightly tapered sides with two raised rings on top and bottom, raised on three high scrolling feet, the interior, the upper and lower bands of the sides and the legs lacquered red, the middle band with clear lacquer revealing the wood beneath
Dimensions
35cm diameter
Provenance
Private English Collection, Home Counties
英格蘭私人收藏，倫敦周圍各郡
Footnote
For a similar ritual wash basin, dated to Momoyama to early Edo period, sold at Christie's London, 15 May 2013, lot 312. Also see another example, with shorter feet, offered at Bonhams New York, 15 September 2015, lot 3086. Earlier examples dated to the Muromachi period (1392–1573), one is in The Metropolitan Museum, accession no: 2015.500.2.10, the other in the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, accession no. F1967.12a-c.