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A Four-Case Inro**
Lot 220

A Four-Case Inro**

EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY), WITH ENGRAVED SIGNATURE ON TWO INLAID GOLD PLAQUES MON EIJO (DESIGN BY EIJO) [MASAMITSU (1577-1617), SIXTH HEAD OF THE GOTO SCHOOL OF METALSMITHS], AND MITSUTERU AND WITH KAKIHAN (CURSIVE MONOGRAM)

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A Four-Case Inro**
Edo period (19th century), with engraved signature on two inlaid gold plaques Mon Eijo (design by Eijo) [Masamitsu (1577-1617), sixth head of the Goto school of metalsmiths], and Mitsuteru and with kakihan (cursive monogram)
Of oval section and designed in black lacquer and yamimaki-e with a continuous pattern of waves and inlaid with various shells in gold and shakudo; the interiors lacquered nashiji with fundame edges; fitted with a pearl bead ojime and a black-lacquer netsuke of a cluster of clam shells, the ends inlaid in ivory; with signature Tomonobu and with kakihan (cursive monogram)
3 5/8in. (9.2cm.) long

Edmund J. Lewis

Note du spécialiste

PUBLISHED:
Joe Earle and Edmund J. Lewis, Shadows and Reflections: Japanese Lacquer Art from the Collection of Edmund J. Lewis (Honolulu: Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1996), pl. 64.

Sold in these Rooms, 4 December, 1986, lot 271.