A rare “maki-e” lacquer box, made with gold and pewter powder, inlaid with a stylised moth and butterfly, in mother of pearl and abalone.
The box was created in 1906 when master lacquer Seizô Sugawara was working in the ateliers teaching Gaillard the art of lacquer, and he is most likely to have realised the lacquerwork, while carpenter Kichizo Inagaki, also working alongside Gaillard, made the box.
Source : Alexandra Jaffré, Art Historian, Author Of The Biography Seizô Sugawara
engraved L. Gaillard, 1906
lacquer, pewter powder, gold powder, wood, abalone, mother of pearl
L.13 x W.10 x H. 3 cm
France, circa 1906
Price on request
Photo credits : Packshot Bureau, Alixe Lay for Nordic Knots
A rare “maki-e” lacquer box, made with gold and pewter powder, inlaid with a stylised moth and butterfly, in mother of pearl and abalone.
The box was created in 1906 when master lacquer Seizô Sugawara was working in the ateliers teaching Gaillard the art of lacquer, and he is most likely to have realised the lacquerwork, while carpenter Kichizo Inagaki, also working alongside Gaillard, made the box.
Source : Alexandra Jaffré, Art Historian, Author Of The Biography Seizô Sugawara
engraved L. Gaillard, 1906
lacquer, pewter powder, gold powder, wood, abalone, mother of pearl
L.13 x W.10 x H. 3 cm
France, circa 1906
Price on request
Photo credits : Packshot Bureau, Alixe Lay for Nordic Knots
