Showrooms

Tea Caddy with Maple Leaves in Stream, circa 2000

Creator: Kawabata Kinsa VI
Offered by: Thomsen Gallery

Description
Kawabata Kinsa VI
Tea Caddy with Maple Leaves in Stream, circa 2000
Maki-e gold and colored lacquer on wood
Size 2¾ x 3 in. (7.3 x 7.4 cm)
T-4898

The turned-wood core finished in polished black roiro lacquer, sprinkled with a gradated ground of kinpun and hirame gold powder and flakes and embellished with larger gold okibirame flakes, and decorated in gold and colored hiramaki-e and takamaki-e with maple leaves and a stream, stylized in the Rinpa manner; the base and interior sprinkled with rounded fragments of shell against a ground of fine ginpun silver powder, some of them partially covered in yellowish lacquer

Comes with a double fitted wood tomobako box, the inner box inscribed outside Momiji ryūsui maki-e ōnatsume uchi ginteki (Tea caddy with maki-e design of fall maple leaves, the interior with “silver mist”) and signed Urushi-shō (Lacquer craftsman Kinsa) with seal Kawabata; and with a paper label inscribed with the same title

The eldest son of the first Kawabata Kinsa was the famous painter Kawabata Gyokushō (1842–1913); the present Kinsa assumed the family title in 2000. The description ginteki (“silver mist”) for the interior of this tea caddy is likely an echo of the same term used by the leading Kyoto ceramic artist Kondō Takahiro (born 1958) to describe a metallic glaze finish that he patented in 2004.

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Period:	2000-2021
Condition:	Good.
Styles / Movements:	Modern, Asian
Incollect Reference #:	773738

Dimensions

W.	3 in;	H.	2.75 in;
W.	7.62 cm;	H.	6.99 cm;

Message from Seller:

Thomsen Gallery, located at 9 East 63rd Street in New York City, specializes in important Japanese paintings, screens, scrolls, ceramics, ikebana bamboo baskets, and lacquer objects, as well as contemporary works by select artists. Owned by Erik and Cornelia Thomsen, the gallery offers a wealth of expertise in Japanese art, with global clientele including collectors and museums. Reach them at 212-288-2588 or info@thomsengallery.com