Live Auction 5527Japanese Art and Design
A Four-Case Inro
Lot 381

A Four-Case Inro

EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

Closed10 November 2010

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GBP 4,375

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A Four-Case Inro
Edo Period (19th century)
Decorated in iroe-hiramaki-e and inlaid in Somada style on a black ground with Daikoku, the reverse with a New Year festival tree and Daikoku's sack
8.1cm. high

Senator S. Collection

Specialist note

For a similar example see Pierre-F Schneeberger, Japanese Lacquer [in the Baur Collection Geneva], (Geneva, 1984) F68, p.106