Lot Essay
The Bunkyu era ran from 1861 to 1864 and does not coincide with the kinoto-mi year (1845 or 1905).
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SIGNED KAJIKAWA BUNRYUSAI (EDO/TOKYO), EDO/MEIJI PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)
Details
A FIVE-CASE INRO
Signed Kajikawa Bunryusai (Edo/Tokyo), Edo/Meiji Period (19th Century)
With black lacquer ground embellished with mura-nashiji; decoration in silver, gold and polychrome togidashi-e; details in gold powder and hirame; compartments and risers gold nashiji; rims gold lacquer; signed underneath in gold hiramaki-e Bunkyu kinoto-mi toshi Kajikawa Bunryusai saku [made by Kajikawa Bunryusai in the kinoto-mi year of Bunkyu]; horn ojime, slight chips to himotoshi
Depicting the twelve animals of the East Asian zodiac in a meadow: rat, bull, tiger, hare, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, cock, dog and boar
4in. (10cm.) long
Signed Kajikawa Bunryusai (Edo/Tokyo), Edo/Meiji Period (19th Century)
With black lacquer ground embellished with mura-nashiji; decoration in silver, gold and polychrome togidashi-e; details in gold powder and hirame; compartments and risers gold nashiji; rims gold lacquer; signed underneath in gold hiramaki-e Bunkyu kinoto-mi toshi Kajikawa Bunryusai saku [made by Kajikawa Bunryusai in the kinoto-mi year of Bunkyu]; horn ojime, slight chips to himotoshi
Depicting the twelve animals of the East Asian zodiac in a meadow: rat, bull, tiger, hare, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, cock, dog and boar
4in. (10cm.) long
Provenance
Felix Tikotin Collection
Dawson Collection
Dawson Collection
Literature
Eskenazi Limited, Japanese Netsuke, Ojime and Inro from the Dawson Collection (London, 1997), cat. no. 116
Sale room notice
Please note that the illustration for this lot has been transposed. The lot is sold as described in the catalogue and not as numbered in the illustration.