A four-case lacquered inro inlaid with pottery shells over combed waves 19th century
A lacquer four-case inro
By Chinkei, 19th century
The dark grey ground lacquered with combed waves and inlaid with pottery shells and gold lacquer waterweed, the interior of fundame with metallic silver liners and with silver tablets for inscriptions, signed on a pottery tablet Chinkei.
7.6cm (3in).
Sold for £840 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • 巻貝波図陶片貼付蒔絵印籠 銘「椿圭」 19世紀

    Provenance: Arthur Kay collection, no.0587.
    Purchased from Nihon Token, London, 1977.
    Wrangham collection, no.1360.

    Published: E.A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists, 1995, p.37, Chinkei, top left.

Category: Asian Art / Japanese Art


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