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MOTOTADA A Black-and Gold-Lacquer Five-Case Inrō (Medicine Case) Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912), 19th century image 1
MOTOTADA A Black-and Gold-Lacquer Five-Case Inrō (Medicine Case) Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912), 19th century image 2
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MOTOTADA
A Black-and Gold-Lacquer Five-Case Inrō (Medicine Case)
Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912), 19th century

14 December 2023, 17:00 EST
New York

Sold for US$2,048 inc. premium

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MOTOTADA

A Black-and Gold-Lacquer Five-Case Inrō (Medicine Case)
Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912), 19th century
Of rounded rectangular plan with applied himotōshi (cord runners), decorated in gold and silver hiramaki-e and takamaki-e with gold kinpun powder and okibirame foil mosaic against a polished black roiro ground, depicting pheasants by an upland torrent fringed with flowering cherry trees, signed in gold hiramaki-e on the base Mototada (Kitō) and with a red lacquer kaō in the form of a kinchaku (money pouch); with a silk cord and a stone ojime
3 5/8in (9.2cm) high

Footnotes

Although Mototada is listed by some authorities as a seventeenth-century court noble and amateur lacquerer, many surviving examples of his work appear to date from the nineteenth century, leading Takao (see below) to describe him as an artist of the late Edo period; see E.A. Wrangham, The Index of Inrō Artists, Harehope, Northumberland, Harehope Publications, 1995, pp.187-8; Takao Yō, Kinsei makie-shi meikan (A List of Edo and Meiji Maki-e Artists), Rokushō 20 (1996), p.108.

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