CYLINDRICAL KÔRO INCENSE BURNER on a small heel, in lacquer on a copper core decorated with pine and prunus blossoms near rocks on the banks of a stream, in gold and silver hiramaki-e and takamaki-e, with details in ginpun, uchikome and kimetsuke, enhanced with silver flowers, on a nashiji and gold background with mokume motifs, evoking wood; the interior lined with copper; the sentoku lid with an openwork basketwork motif. In its wooden box. Japan, Edo period, 17th century. A GOLD LACQUERED AND COPPER INCENSE BURNER KÔRO, JAPAN, EDO PERIOD, 17TH CENTURY. DIM. 8,5 X 6,1 CM (3 1/8 X 2 3/8 IN.) PROVENANCE: Christie's London, 12 November 2003, No. 91. Published in: Mike and Hiroko Dean, Nihon no Shikki, Japanese Lacquer - an Exposition, Kyoto, 1984, no. 63. NOTE The scene is said to represent the garden of Rokujo, home of Prince Genji, in the Genji Monogatari, chap. 23, Hatsune.