8 Nov 2011
14:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street
The Harriet Szechenyi Sale of Japanese Art
Back to auction 19548
The Harriet Szechenyi Sale of Japanese Art
Back to auction 19548
A gold lacquer five-case inro
By the Kajikawa family, 19th century
Of upright form, bearing a kinji ground and lacquered with a cockerel perched on a vine-clad drum, its mate shown on the reverse, foraging for food beneath a spreading pine tree, in gold and slight-coloured takamakie, the interior of nashiji, signed Kajikawa saku with red pot seal; with a gold ojime carved and pierced with sparrows flying over wild flowers, signed Kanju; and an ivory two-part manju, carved and pierced with birds flying over jakago in a stream, beneath a pine tree, unsigned. 9.2cm (3 5/8in).
Of upright form, bearing a kinji ground and lacquered with a cockerel perched on a vine-clad drum, its mate shown on the reverse, foraging for food beneath a spreading pine tree, in gold and slight-coloured takamakie, the interior of nashiji, signed Kajikawa saku with red pot seal; with a gold ojime carved and pierced with sparrows flying over wild flowers, signed Kanju; and an ivory two-part manju, carved and pierced with birds flying over jakago in a stream, beneath a pine tree, unsigned. 9.2cm (3 5/8in).
Sold for
£3,750
inc. premium
Footnotes
- 親子鶏に松の木図蒔絵印籠 銘「梶川 榮（花押）」 19世紀
Category: Asian Art / Japanese Art
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