A four-case inro lacquered and inlaid with cranes and plum in Rimpa style 19th century
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A gold lacquer inlaid four-case inro
By Yamada Jokasai, after a design by Ogata Korin, 19th century
Bearing a fundame ground, inlaid in pewter and aogai with two cranes and flowering plum branches in Rimpa style, the interior of nashiji, signed Jokasai saku, Korin no zu.
7.6cm (3in).
Estimate:
£1,200 - 1,500
JPY 180,000 - 230,000
US$ 1,800 - 2,300

Footnotes

  • 梅鶴図螺鈿蒔絵印籠　銘「以光琳圓　常嘉齋作」　19世紀

    Provenance: purchased at Sotheby's London, 1985.
    Wrangham collection, no.1760.

    Published: E.A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists, 1995, p.99. Joka(sai), section 4A, fourth from left.

Category: Asian Art / Japanese Art

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