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Lot 242

A lacquer four-case inro
By Shigeyoshi, 19th century

The Edward Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art: Part III
15 May 2012, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A lacquer four-case inro

By Shigeyoshi, 19th century
Bearing a bright vermilion ground and lacquered with a black Himalayan bear seated beside a rock, the reverse with butterflies hovering over a waterfall, in gold and coloured takamakie with details of kirikane and the interior of nashiji, signed Shigeyoshi saku with kao. 7.6cm (3in).

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花蝶に熊図蒔絵印籠　銘「重美作（花押）」　19世紀

Provenance: purchased at Sotheby's, London, 1965.
Wrangham collection, no.567.

Published: E. A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists, p. 240, Shigeyoshi, right.

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