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Lot 320
A gold lacquer five-case inro By Kiyogawa (family), after Kano Motonobu (1476-1559), 19th century
15 May 2012, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street£900 - £1,000
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By Kiyogawa (family), after Kano Motonobu (1476-1559), 19th century
Of upright form, bearing a fundame ground, lacquered with a continuous design of a flowering hibiscus in shades of gold takamakie with kirikane highlights, the interior of nashiji, signed Ko-hogen Motonobu kore no zu, Kiyogawa (Seisen) saku. 9.5cm (3¾in).
Of upright form, bearing a fundame ground, lacquered with a continuous design of a flowering hibiscus in shades of gold takamakie with kirikane highlights, the interior of nashiji, signed Ko-hogen Motonobu kore no zu, Kiyogawa (Seisen) saku. 9.5cm (3¾in).
Footnotes
芙蓉図蒔絵印籠 銘「清川作」「古法眼元信之図」 19世紀
Provenance: purchased from Spink & Son Ltd., London, 1968.
Wrangham collection, no.873.
Published: E. A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists, 1995, p.131, Kiyokawa, two on the left.






