Kazaribako by Kyôhei Fujita

Description:

Japan, Tokyo, 1921 - Chiba, 2004
H. 16,5 cm, B. 15 cm
A hexagonal studio glass box with a domed lid (kazaribako), mould-blown in greenish glass and decorated with gold leaf and silver, partly etched and incorporating fused glass granules. The edges are mounted with silver-plated metal.
From a German private collection - Kyōhei Fujita translated the traditional Japanese art of elaborately decorated lacquer boxes into the medium of glass. His kazaribako, created from the 1970s onwards, are characterised by mould-blown glass, intricate inlays of precious metal leaf, fused glass elements and, in some cases, etched surfaces.- Minor traces of use to the metall