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Lot 188
A lacquer three-case inro
By Kimura Jukkyoku, 18th century
10 May 2011, 14:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £37,200 inc. premium
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A lacquer three-case inro
By Kimura Jukkyoku, 18th century
In the form of a Chinese ink cake, carved in relief with a Chinese bronze bowl of peaches, attached to branches with roots trailing beneath, the reverse with two lines of archaic script and the date Banreki bo-nen shun-jitsu (on the day of Spring, the year of Tsuchinoe, Wanli period), one edge with an inscription in relief, Taigen Shinichi no sumi, the other with a seal, signed Nan'yo Kokyo, Kimura Jukkyoku with large kao. 7cm (2¾in).
In the form of a Chinese ink cake, carved in relief with a Chinese bronze bowl of peaches, attached to branches with roots trailing beneath, the reverse with two lines of archaic script and the date Banreki bo-nen shun-jitsu (on the day of Spring, the year of Tsuchinoe, Wanli period), one edge with an inscription in relief, Taigen Shinichi no sumi, the other with a seal, signed Nan'yo Kokyo, Kimura Jukkyoku with large kao. 7cm (2¾in).
Footnotes
桃図古墨意匠印籠 銘「南陽廣郷 狩野十旭（花押）」 18世紀
Provenance: purchased at Sotheby's London, 1966.
Wrangham collection, no.692.
Published: E.A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists, 1995, p.104, Jukkyoku, top row, centre.
Exhibited: Sydney L. Moss Ltd., Eccentrics in Netsuke, 1982, no.7.