A gold lacquer three-case inro
By Yoshimura Ekimyo, 19th century
Bearing a fundame ground, lacquered with a crow perched on an ivy-clad withered tree, while another crow flies past, the reverse with a crow flying towards the setting sun above snow-covered bamboo, in gold and coloured takamakie with kirikane and aogai, the interior of nashiji, signed and sealed Yoshimura Ekimyo.
7.6cm (3in).
Bearing a fundame ground, lacquered with a crow perched on an ivy-clad withered tree, while another crow flies past, the reverse with a crow flying towards the setting sun above snow-covered bamboo, in gold and coloured takamakie with kirikane and aogai, the interior of nashiji, signed and sealed Yoshimura Ekimyo.
7.6cm (3in).
Sold for
£1,375
inc. premium
Footnotes
- 鴉風景（入り日に雪笹、蔦枝）図蒔絵螺鈿印籠 銘「吉村易描 吉村易描（方印）」 19世紀
Provenance: purchased at Sotheby's, London, 1965.
Wrangham collection, no.486.
Published: E. A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists, 1995, p.50, Ekimyo, Yoshimura, centre.
Category: Asian Art / Japanese Art
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