A dark shibuichi two-case inro
Ichinomiya School, 19th century
Carved and inlaid with a lady kneeling to beat cloth outside a thatched hut beneath an overhanging pine branch, the reverse with wild flowers by a stream, details in gold and silver takazogan, signed Nagatsune.
6.3cm (2½in).
Carved and inlaid with a lady kneeling to beat cloth outside a thatched hut beneath an overhanging pine branch, the reverse with wild flowers by a stream, details in gold and silver takazogan, signed Nagatsune.
6.3cm (2½in).
Sold for
£625
inc. premium
Footnotes
- 砧打ち図金工印籠 銘「長常」 19世紀
Provenance: purchased at Sotheby's, New York, 1991.
Wrangham collection, no.2019.
Published: E. A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists, 1995, p.192, Nagatsune, Ichinomiya, top row, left.
Category: Asian Art / Japanese Art
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