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Fascinating Japanese Lacquer Namazu Catfish Platter browse these categories for related items... Directory: Vintage Arts:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese:Lacquer:Pre 1980: item # 681832 Please refer to our stock # MOR2215 when inquiring.
The Kura 16-1 ShimoWakakusa-Cho Murasakino Kita-ku Kyoto 603-8234 tel.81-75-432-6980 Guest Book 1,380.00 |
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| The slippery figure of a large catfish is written in beautiful detail as it spies 3 golden killifish, a smile on its comic face as it perhaps contemplates a little snack. This is a large raised basin of wood covered with lacquer on a black ring foot. The basin is covered in white lacquer (actually a pale color) covered in transparent red polished through, to give the liquid sense of sun-dappled water. The three medaka fish are gold raised maki-e and the fish is a combination of raised lacquer colors buffed through to reveal the colors beneath, with extremely fine gold powder on the fins, the imagery surrounded in a ring of mother of pearl inlay. The dish is 13-1/2 inches (34 cm) diameter, 3 inches (7.5 cm) tall and in excellent condition. It is signed on bottom what appears to read Nobushige. A timeless subject, the catfish brings to the Japanese mind the Zen masters and their paintings. There is a koan riddle which centers on the catfish, how do you catch a catfish with a gourd?. A koan is an illogical riddle with no apparent answer (what is the sound of one hand clapping?) The piece dates from the Showa era, 20th century. | |||||||||||
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