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Lot 237
A black lacquer four-case inro By the Kajikawa Family, 19th century
15 May 2012, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £2,000 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA black lacquer four-case inro
By the Kajikawa Family, 19th century
Of upright form, the roiro ground with sparse nashiji, lacquered with a continuous scene of two crows perched on a withered branch, silhouetted against the full moon, in gold and black takamakie with details of gold foil, the moon of shibuichi-nuri and the interior of nashiji, signed Kajikawa saku with red pot seal. 8.9cm (3½in).
Of upright form, the roiro ground with sparse nashiji, lacquered with a continuous scene of two crows perched on a withered branch, silhouetted against the full moon, in gold and black takamakie with details of gold foil, the moon of shibuichi-nuri and the interior of nashiji, signed Kajikawa saku with red pot seal. 8.9cm (3½in).
Footnotes
満月に鴉図蒔絵印籠 銘「梶川作 榮(壺印)」 19世紀
Provenance: purchased at Lempertz, Cologne, 1963.
Wrangham collection, no.297.
A very similar design is seen on an inro in the W. L. Behrens collection, no.917, illustrated in the Catalogue, pl.XLIV.
Exhibited: Eskenazi Ltd., London, 1972.
























