10 May 2011
14:30 BST
London, New Bond Street
The Edward Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art part II
Back to auction 19295
The Edward Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art part II
Back to auction 19295
A lacquer two-case inro
By Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891), Meiji Period
Of wide form, bearing a shibuichi-nuri ground and lacquered with metalwork tools, in gold, silver and black takamakie and lightly engraved with Hotei leaning on his sack, in katakiri and kebori, the interior of rogin-nuri, inscribed Shokado utsusu Somin with kao, signed Zeshin; with lacquer hako-netsuke of oval form, lacquered on the olive-green ground with a large oak acorns over which walks an ant in delicate kebori, the interior of nashiji, signed Zeshin.
4.8cm (1 7/8in).
Of wide form, bearing a shibuichi-nuri ground and lacquered with metalwork tools, in gold, silver and black takamakie and lightly engraved with Hotei leaning on his sack, in katakiri and kebori, the interior of rogin-nuri, inscribed Shokado utsusu Somin with kao, signed Zeshin; with lacquer hako-netsuke of oval form, lacquered on the olive-green ground with a large oak acorns over which walks an ant in delicate kebori, the interior of nashiji, signed Zeshin.
4.8cm (1 7/8in).
Sold for
£120,000
inc. premium
Footnotes
- 布袋に金物図蒔絵印籠 銘「松花堂写 宗珉（花押）」「是真」 明治時代
Provenance: Col. Lange collection, purchased at Hotel Drouot, Paris, 1972.
Wrangham collection, no.1156.
Published: E.A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists, 1995, p.346, Zeshin, right column, top centre.
The decoration on the inro is deliberately chosen by Zeshin as a tribute to the great Yokoya School chiseller Somin.
See also the footnote to lot 366.
Category: Asian Art / Japanese Art
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