9 Nov 2010
14:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street
The Edward Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art: Part I
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The Edward Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art: Part I
Back to auction 18493
A black lacquer four-case inro
Kajikawa family, 19th century
Bearing a rich roiro ground and lacquered with a falcon perched on a saddle-shaped perch with a shishi recumbent beneath, the reverse with a falcon on a pillar-perch, all in gold and coloured takamakie with slight inlaid aogai details, the interior of nashiji, signed Kajikawa saku with red pot seal Ei.
8.5cm (3 3/8in).
Bearing a rich roiro ground and lacquered with a falcon perched on a saddle-shaped perch with a shishi recumbent beneath, the reverse with a falcon on a pillar-perch, all in gold and coloured takamakie with slight inlaid aogai details, the interior of nashiji, signed Kajikawa saku with red pot seal Ei.
8.5cm (3 3/8in).
Sold for
£4,200
inc. premium
Footnotes
- 鷹図蒔絵螺鈿印籠 銘「梶川作 英（壺印）」 19世紀
Provenance: F.A. Richards collection, purchased at Sotheby's London, 1963.
Wrangham collection, no.232.
Exhibited: The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1972, no.18.
Category: Asian Art / Japanese Art
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