A black lacquer three-case inro By Shunsho, 19th century
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A black lacquer three-case inro
By Yamamoto Shunsho, 19th century
Delicately decorated in coloured and gold togidashi and enhanced with gold flakes with an itinerant entertainer giving a performance with puppets to the delight of onlookers depicted on the reverse, signed Shunsho with seal Kagemasa.
8.6cm (3 3/8in).
Sold for £5,760 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • 人形師図蒔絵印籠　銘「春正　景正（印銘）」　19世紀

    Provenance: purchased at Christie's London, 1963.
    Wrangham collection, no.289.

    Published: E.A.Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists, 1995, p.264, Yamamoto Shunsho, top row, right.

Category: Asian Art / Japanese Art

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