Live Auction 5527Japanese Art and Design
A Fine Four-Case Inro
Lot 399

A Fine Four-Case Inro

SIGNED WITH SCRATCHED SIGNATURE ZESHIN, EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

Closed10 November 2010

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GBP 23,750

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A Fine Four-Case Inro
Signed with scratched signature Zeshin, Edo Period (19th century)
Decorated in red, gold and black hiramaki-e, sabiji, silver and gold kanshitsu [dry lacquer] and lightly carved with katabami [wood sorrel] and omadaka [water plantain], attached hako netsuke of similar design, signed Zeshin
8cm. high

Specialist note

For a similar example see The Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection of Inro and Lacuqer, Sothebys London, 18th June 1997, lot 18

For another example see W. L. Behrens Collection, no. 1537, illus. plate. LV