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Lot 332

A gold lacquer four-case inro
By Takano Shozan (1889-1976), 20th century

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

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A gold lacquer four-case inro

By Takano Shozan (1889-1976), 20th century
Embellished in gold and red takamakie, kirikane and mura-nashiji with a monkey hanging from a fruiting branch in front of a massive nephila spider's web on one side and its mate and young gesticulating on the ground on the reverse, the interior of rich nashiji; signed Shi-ken Shozan saku. 9cm (3½in).

Footnotes

親子猿に蜘蛛の巣図蒔絵印籠 銘「漆軒松山作」 20世紀

Provenance: purchased from Eskenazi Ltd., London, 1988.
Wrangham collection, no.1903.

Published: E. A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists, 1995, p.259, Shozan.

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