A four-case inro with three monkeys swinging from a tree on a nashiji ground Momoyama Period
192
An early lacquer small four-case inro
17th century
Bearing a dark nashiji ground, lacquered with three monkeys or gibbons playfully swinging from the branches of a plum tree, in rubbed-gold takamakie with kirikane details, the interior of black lacquer with a rinzu design in gold hiramakie, unsigned.
5.4cm (2 1/8in).
Sold for £1,000 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • 親子遊猿図蒔絵印籠　無銘　17世紀

    Provenance: purchased from Patrick Syz, London, 1995.
    Wrangham collection, no.2087.

    The mammals depicted have been identified as gibbons by Richard Wrangham, the brother of Edward and an authority on primates.

Category: Asian Art / Japanese Art

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