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Lot 309

A gold lacquer four-case inro
By Shiba Kanko, 19th century

15 May 2012, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A gold lacquer four-case inro

By Shiba Kanko, 19th century
Lacquered with two tigers beside a stream, the reverse with an old pine tree, all in gold takamakie, the tigers' eyes inlaid and other details of kirikane and togidashi, the interior of gold and black lacquer, decorated with an asa-no-ha design, signed Kanko with red seal Miya; with gold lacquer ojime decorated with sprays of gingko in gold hiramakie, unsigned. 8.2cm (3¼in).

Footnotes

水辺に親子虎図蒔絵印籠 銘「貫洪 宮(方印)」 19世紀

Provenance: Hirst-Broadhead collection, purchased at Sotheby's, London, 1969.
Wrangham collection, no.990.

Published: E. A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists, p.111, Kanko, Shiba.

The design is derived from an unsigned and undated studio work book attributable to the Yamamoto family of lacquerers.

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