A gold lacquer inro Koma Kyuhaku, 19th century
320*
A gold lacquer five-case inro
By Koma Kyuhaku, 19th century
Of upright form, bearing a fundame ground, lacquered with a court lady of the Heian period crying over a fence with a pine-decorated fusuma at her back and a scene of flowering prunus trees seen beyond a verandah on the reverse, in gold takamakie with details of kirikane and e-nashiji, the interior of nashiji, signed Koma Kyuhaku.
8.5cm (3 3/8in).
Sold for £3,125 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • 官女に梅図蒔絵印籠　銘「古満休伯作」　19世紀

    Provenance: Gretchen Kroch Kelsch collection.

    Published: Japanese Netsuke, Ojime, Inro and Lacquerware, Eskenazi Ltd., London, 1984, p.53, no.112.

Category: Asian Art / Japanese Art

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