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
Koma Family
A lacquer five-case inro
By Koma Kansai, early 19th century
Of ribbed form with openwork silver cord runners, bearing a mottled dark-brown ground, lacquered and inlaid with five large dragonflies in gold takamakie with details of e-nashiji and tsuishu with inlay of green-stained ivory and raden, the interior of nashiji, signed Kansai with red kao.
7.9cm (3 1/8in).
Of ribbed form with openwork silver cord runners, bearing a mottled dark-brown ground, lacquered and inlaid with five large dragonflies in gold takamakie with details of e-nashiji and tsuishu with inlay of green-stained ivory and raden, the interior of nashiji, signed Kansai with red kao.
7.9cm (3 1/8in).
Sold for
£9,000
inc. premium
Footnotes
- 蜻蛉図蒔絵螺鈿印籠 銘「寛哉（花押）」 19世紀前期
Provenance: purchased from Eskenazi Ltd., London, 1982.
Wrangham collection, no.1589.
Published: E.A.Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists, 1995, p.113, Koma Kansai II, bottom left.
While it is often difficult to distinguish between the work of the three Kansai masters of the Koma school, the present work is probably that of Koma Kansai II (1767-1835) who lived in Edo, and was the son and student of Koma Kansai I.
Category: Asian Art / Japanese Art
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