6 Nov 2012
10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street
Fine Japanese Art Morning Session
Back to auction 20023
Fine Japanese Art Morning Session
Back to auction 20023
A lacquer four-case inro
Late 18th century
The sparse nashiji ground decorated in gold and slight-coloured takamakie and gold togidashi with a humorous scene of Shoki the demon-queller emerging from behind a rock wielding a sword, as a cheeky oni dangles a yajirobe (balancing toy) in front of him, the interior of nashiji, unsigned. 7.7cm (3in) high.
The sparse nashiji ground decorated in gold and slight-coloured takamakie and gold togidashi with a humorous scene of Shoki the demon-queller emerging from behind a rock wielding a sword, as a cheeky oni dangles a yajirobe (balancing toy) in front of him, the interior of nashiji, unsigned. 7.7cm (3in) high.
Sold for
£562
inc. premium
Footnotes
- 鍾馗に鬼図蒔絵印籠 無銘 18世紀後期
Provenance: W. W. Winkworth collection.
Purchased in 1949.
Category: Asian Art / Japanese Art
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