Live Auction 12483The Joseph Collection of Japanese Art
A Fine Tsuishu [Carved Red Lacquer] Kogo [Incense Box]
Lot 30

A Fine Tsuishu [Carved Red Lacquer] Kogo [Incense Box]

Signed Hokei to [carved by Hokei (Matsuki Hokei)], Edo period (19th century)

Closed11 November 2015

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GBP 11,250

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A Fine Tsuishu [Carved Red Lacquer] Kogo [Incense Box]
Signed Hokei to [carved by Hokei (Matsuki Hokei)], Edo period (19th century)
In the form of a clam shell, the exterior magnificently carved in high and low relief through the thick layers of red lacquer with a flock of chidori [plovers] on a carved diaper ground, nashiji interior, the interior of the footrim with mura-nashiji, fundame rims
10cm. wide

Spink and Son Ltd., London
Eskenazi Ltd., London

Specialist note

Matsuki Hokei was the most distinguished exponent among the carvers of the technique in carved red cinnabar lacquer known as tsuishu in the late Edo to Meiji period.
For more about the artist, see George Lazarnick, Netsuke and Inro Artists and How to Read Their Signatures (Honolulu, 1982), p. 481 and E.A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists, (Harehope, 1995), p. 79.