A gold lacquer unusual four-case inro
By Mototada, 19th century
In the shape of an oi (a Yamabushi priest's travelling pack), of slightly-domed and curved rectangular form, bearing a fundame ground with a simulated basketwork and wood structure and with trailing ivy on both sides in gold and slight-coloured takamakie, the corners strengthened with silver and interior of nashiji, signed Mototada with kao.
10.2cm (4in).
In the shape of an oi (a Yamabushi priest's travelling pack), of slightly-domed and curved rectangular form, bearing a fundame ground with a simulated basketwork and wood structure and with trailing ivy on both sides in gold and slight-coloured takamakie, the corners strengthened with silver and interior of nashiji, signed Mototada with kao.
10.2cm (4in).
Sold for
£39,650
inc. premium
Footnotes
- 笈形竹網戸図蒔絵印籠 銘「基薫（花押）」 19世紀
Provenance: Baron Morimasa Takei collection, no.5.F.18.
Purchased from Spink & Son Ltd., London, 1993.
Wrangham collection, no.2045.
Published: E. A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists, 1995, p.187, Mototada, centre.
Exhibited: Treasures of the North, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, and Christie's, London, 2000, no.57.
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Category: Asian Art / Japanese Art
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