A RARE RECTANGULAR LACQUER AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID SINGLE-CASE INRO
EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY), SIGNED TOYO (IITZUKA TOYO; 1725?-1790) WITH CURSIVE MONOGRAM (KAO)
7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm.) wide
A RARE RECTANGULAR LACQUER AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID SINGLE-CASE INRO
EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY), SIGNED TOYO (IITZUKA TOYO; 1725?-1790) WITH CURSIVE MONOGRAM (KAO)
7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm.) wide
R. Harari Collection Sotheby's London, 28 March 1974 Edward Wrangham Collection Bonhams London, 15 May 2012, lot 283
E.A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists (Alnwick: Harehope, 1995). pp. 312.
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