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Title: Tale of Genji lacquer display with hand painted shells
Post by: Bibitte2 on August 14, 2013, 08:25:53 AM

Good morning,
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I got à superb set from an Estate sale last week.....
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The set is composed of 9 trays of 6 hand painted shells
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A box with cards that explain's each shells is also included in the set
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The owner payed more than 2000.00 for the set in the 1980 era...

Any help would be appreciated....

Title: Re: Tale of Genji lacquer display with hand painted shells
Post by: KC on August 14, 2013, 09:03:33 AM

Pictures would be even more appreciated!  :)

Title: Re: Tale of Genji lacquer display with hand painted shells
Post by: mart on August 14, 2013, 09:29:10 AM

Yes please pics !! My imagination is on vacation !!

Title: Re: Tale of Genji lacquer display with hand painted shells
Post by: KC on August 14, 2013, 12:12:52 PM

Just had to come back to this one.

Genji painted shells are actually VERY gorgeous!!!!  If you will note, these can be VERY old and VERY valuable!  Yours most likely were originally from a very old game (kai-awase) that was a matching game and was originally housed in a beautiful lacquer hexagon box.

 British Museum (Note the time period)
http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/asia/s/shell_game_box_decorated_with.aspx (http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/asia/s/shell_game_box_decorated_with.aspx)
Another
http://sites.asiasociety.org/arts/asiangames/match04.html (http://sites.asiasociety.org/arts/asiangames/match04.html)

http://www.trocadero.com/stores/meijibijutsu/items/1056207/item1056207.html (http://www.trocadero.com/stores/meijibijutsu/items/1056207/item1056207.html)

There are specific characters for Genji and here is an abbreviated idea of them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Genji (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Genji)