9 Nov 2010
14:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street
The Edward Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art: Part I
Back to auction 18493
The Edward Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art: Part I
Back to auction 18493
An early lacquer four-case inro
17th century
Of wide form, bearing a roiro ground and decorated with kiku blooms over the entire surface in rubbed black and gold lacquer with details of aogai nashiji, the interior of nashiji, unsigned.
7.6cm (3in).
Of wide form, bearing a roiro ground and decorated with kiku blooms over the entire surface in rubbed black and gold lacquer with details of aogai nashiji, the interior of nashiji, unsigned.
7.6cm (3in).
Sold for
£2,400
inc. premium
Footnotes
- 菊図蒔絵螺鈿印籠 無銘 17世紀
Provenance: J. Norman Collie collection.
Purchased from Spink and Son, London, 1984.
Wrangham collection, no.1709.
Exhibited: The Red Cross Exhibition, London, 1915, no.258.
A similar example is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated by Julia Hutt, Japanese Inro, p.91, top right.
Category: Asian Art / Japanese Art
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