A rattan pipe case inlaid with a frog and willow
A woven rattan kiseruzutsu
By Sadamune, late 19th century
Of muso-zutsu type, the woven ground with a vertical strengthening bar to one side and inlaid with a frog trying to climb up a trailing willow branch, in wood and coloured ivory, the eyes of raden, signed on a red lacquer tablet Sadamune.
19.3cm (7⅝in).
Sold for £10,000 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • 藤網代組蒔絵螺鈿きせる筒 柳に蛙 銘「貞宗」 19世紀後期

    Provenance: purchased from Alain Ducros, Paris, 2009.
    Wrangham collection, no.2348.

Category: Asian Art / Japanese Art


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