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Okuda Shōjusai 奥田松寿斎 INRŌ WITH MANZAI DANCER 漫才師図蒔絵印籠 Meiji era (1868–1912) image 1
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Okuda Shōjusai 奥田松寿斎 INRŌ WITH MANZAI DANCER 漫才師図蒔絵印籠 Meiji era (1868–1912) image 3
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Okuda Shōjusai 奥田松寿斎 INRŌ WITH MANZAI DANCER 漫才師図蒔絵印籠
Meiji era (1868–1912)

The Misumi Collection of Important Works of Lacquer Art and Paintings: Part II
10 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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Okuda Shōjusai 奥田松寿斎 INRŌ WITH MANZAI DANCER 漫才師図蒔絵印籠

Meiji era (1868–1912)
An inrō with four interlocking cases and cover, of standard lenticular cross-section with straight sides, rounded corners, curved top and base, and applied cord-runners, the bright red lacquer ground sprinkled with very fine gold kinpun (gold powder) decorated in gold, silver, and coloured togidashi maki-e embellished with kirigane and shell, on each side a manzai dancer in an elaborately decorated costume, one beating a tsuzumi (hourglass hand-drum), the other holding an open fan, beneath a shimenawa (sacred rope) decorated with ferns, the compartments and risers gold nashiji, the shoulders and risers gold fundame; shibuichi, silver, and gilt-metal ojime in the form of a noshi (celebratory paper decoration); wood netsuke in the form of a shishi seated with its right forepaw on a brocade ball, with an oval base

Signed in gold hiramaki-e on the base Shōjusai 松壽齋 with a kaō

The inrō 9.5 × 5.1 × 1.5 cm (3¾ × 2 × 5/8 in.)
The netsuke 3.5 × 3.8 × 2.2 cm (1 3/8 × 1½ × 7/8 in.)

Fitted wooden storage box (2)

Provenance
Sotheby's New York, 8 December 1988, lot no. 523
Sotheby's New York, 19 March 1997, lot no. 61

Footnotes

This accomplished artist is believed to have been active during the Meiji era and perhaps into the Taisho era (Takao 2005, p. 94; Wrangham 1995, p. 250).

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