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
2A fine black lacquer four-case inro
19th century
Bearing a rich roiro ground and lacquered with a sumptiously-clad orian seated, leaning on a kyosoku (arm rest), and unfurling her love letter whilst behind her, Daruma comes to life from a hanging kakemono, the reverse with two overlapping shikishi (poem slips), one inscribed with a kyoka poem and a small suzuribako, all in gold and coloured togidashi, the interior of rich nashiji, unsigned.
8.9cm (3½in).
Bearing a rich roiro ground and lacquered with a sumptiously-clad orian seated, leaning on a kyosoku (arm rest), and unfurling her love letter whilst behind her, Daruma comes to life from a hanging kakemono, the reverse with two overlapping shikishi (poem slips), one inscribed with a kyoka poem and a small suzuribako, all in gold and coloured togidashi, the interior of rich nashiji, unsigned.
8.9cm (3½in).
Sold for
£5,625
inc. premium
Footnotes
- 花魁に達磨掛軸図蒔絵印籠 無銘 19世紀
The poem transcribes:
ふみをよむ / 女にこゝろ / かけものゝ/ 達广は うつゝ / ぬけて 出らるゝ
Fumio o yomu / onna ni kokoro / kakemono no / Daruma wa utsutsu / nukete deraruru
And translates:
Daruma coming to life from a painting
smitten by a lady reading a letter.
The design is taken from a double-page illustration in Ehon Tokonoyama, vol.1, by Shunchosai Takehara (active c.1772-1801). It is a parody of a kyoka poem, 'Pictures of the heart'.
Category: Asian Art / Japanese Art
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