Live Auction 2462Japanese & Korean Art
A four-case lacquer inro**
Lot 526

A four-case lacquer inro**

EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

Closed14 September 2011

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A four-case lacquer inro**
Edo period (19th century)
Decorated in gold and black takamaki-e and kirikane with two black cicadas climbing a bamboo fence simulated in gold lacquer on each side, the interior nashiji; with an ivory netsuke of a realistically carved cicada signed Sengen and with glass bead ojime
3in. (7.6cm.) long

Specialist note

For a similar inro by Koma Yasutada, see Pierre-F. Schneeberger, The Baur Collection Geneva: Japanese Lacquer (Selected Pieces) (Geneva: Collections Baur-Genève, 1984), cover ill. and pl. F162.