Live Auction 19017Japanese and Korean Art
A FINE LACQUER TOBACCO POUCH AND NETSUKE
Lot 46

A FINE LACQUER TOBACCO POUCH AND NETSUKE

MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY), NETSUKE SIGNED TAISHIN (IKEDA TAISHIN; 1825-1903)

Closed22 September 2020

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A FINE LACQUER TOBACCO POUCH AND NETSUKE
MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY), NETSUKE SIGNED TAISHIN (IKEDA TAISHIN; 1825-1903)
The dark ishime (rough stone finish) body, the hinged top decorated in gold and polychrome lacquers with a dragonfly and a click beetle, a shibuichi clasp of snail applied with a mother-of-pearl, the bamboo netsuke decorated with an egg plant; siganture in gold lacquer on base
4 3/8 x 3 in. (11.1 x 7.6 cm.)

Specialist note

Ikeda Taishin was born in Edo and became Shibata Zeshin’s first lacquer apprentice, aged eleven in 1835. He became an independent artist around 1870, approximately 25 years later. Together with Kawanobe Itcho (Genjiro; 1830-1910), Taishin was appointed an Artist to the Imperial Household (Teishitsu gigeiin) in 1896.