A black lacquer four-case inro
By Nakayama Komin, (1808-1870), 19th century
Bearing a rich roiro ground, lacquered with a koto half-hidden beneath a bamboo blind (misu) in gold takamakie, the reverse lacquered in silver with the crescent moon seen among clouds of kirikane and mura-nashiji and the interior of nashiji, signed Komin kore wo tsukuru.
7.3cm (2 7/8in).
Bearing a rich roiro ground, lacquered with a koto half-hidden beneath a bamboo blind (misu) in gold takamakie, the reverse lacquered in silver with the crescent moon seen among clouds of kirikane and mura-nashiji and the interior of nashiji, signed Komin kore wo tsukuru.
7.3cm (2 7/8in).
Sold for
£7,500
inc. premium
Footnotes
- 御簾に琴・霧月夜図蒔絵印籠 銘「胡民造之」 19世紀
Provenance: Michael Tomkinson collection, no.421.
Wrangham collection, no.1818.
Purchased from Nihon Token, London, 1986.
Published: E. A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists, 1995, p.142, Komin, Nakayama, right column, top right.
Exhibited: Meiji: Japanese Art in Transition, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Holland, 1987, no.171.
Category: Asian Art / Japanese Art
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