Details
A THREE CASE LACQUER INRO
EDO PERIOD, DATED KYOHO 3 (1718), SIGNED SHINSHOKO [RITSUO (1663-1747)], SEALED KAN
Of rectangular shape with cylindrical cord runners, flat top and bottom, and decorated with an owl perched on a tree branch on the front and with the tips of the branches and a poem on the reverse; the owl of red Raku ware pottery with inlaid glass eyes and the branch of gold lacquer with red lacquer highlights in very high relief set against a roiro ground; the poem on the reverse rendered in gold takamaki-e and the artist's square seal Kan in red lacquer, the interior cases rendered in chikinbori with an overall pattern of craquelure; fitted with a wood netsuke carved as a section of bamboo applied with two lacquer insects and a large bead ojime--2¾in. (7.2cm.) high, surface scratches
EDO PERIOD, DATED KYOHO 3 (1718), SIGNED SHINSHOKO [RITSUO (1663-1747)], SEALED KAN
Of rectangular shape with cylindrical cord runners, flat top and bottom, and decorated with an owl perched on a tree branch on the front and with the tips of the branches and a poem on the reverse; the owl of red Raku ware pottery with inlaid glass eyes and the branch of gold lacquer with red lacquer highlights in very high relief set against a roiro ground; the poem on the reverse rendered in gold takamaki-e and the artist's square seal Kan in red lacquer, the interior cases rendered in chikinbori with an overall pattern of craquelure; fitted with a wood netsuke carved as a section of bamboo applied with two lacquer insects and a large bead ojime--2¾in. (7.2cm.) high, surface scratches
Provenance
Purchased from Hayashi Tadamasa, Paris, June, 1894