SOLD! Lacquered-Wood Gunbai (War Fan)

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A lacquered-wood signal fan (gunbai)

Edo period (17th-18th century)

A red-lacquered wood gunbai with twenty-eight-constellation design, with gilt-metal fittings engraved with clematis on a nanako ground, with stylized stellar constellations in gold makie, and inscribed in gold lacquer


Provenance

Wakisaka Awaji no kami

Tokodo Collection


Literature

Hankyu Department Store, ed., Hankyu hyakkaten sogyo rokujusshunen kinen: Kobijutsugai itsueiten (60th anniversary of opening of Hankyu Department Store: Antique shop festival) (Osaka: Hankyu Department Store, 1989), p. 80.


Exhibited

Hankyu Department Store, Osaka, "Hankyu hyakkaten sogyo rokujusshunen kinen: Kobijutsugai itsueiten" (60th anniversary of opening of Hankyu Department Store: Antique shops festival), 1989.3.24--29