A FOUR-CASE INRO

SIGNED KAJIKAWA, EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

Details

A FOUR-CASE INRO
Signed Kajikawa, Edo Period (19th Century)
With black lacquer ground embellished with gold powder; decoration in gold and polychrome hiramaki-e and takamaki-e with details in shell; compartments, risers, shoulders and rims gold lacquer; signed underneath in gold hiramaki-e Kajikawa saku [made by Kajikawa] with a red lacquer seal Ei; ivory ojime carved as a ball inside a box, signed Soichi (Munekazu); lacquer kagami netsuke with a tortoise and waves

Nawa noren [rope curtain] tied to one side and two swallows in flight; the reverse with tips of a fruiting plant
3in. (8.2cm.) long

Provenance

Walter Lionel Behrens Collection
C. P. Peak Collection
William Wilberforce Winkworth Collection
Demaree and Dorothy Bess Collection
Charles A. Greenfield Collection

Literature

Eskenazi Limited, The Charles A. Greenfield Collection of Japanese Lacquer (London, 1990), cat. no. 102
Glendining and Co., auction catalogue of the W.L. Behrens Collection [by H.L. Joly], pt. 2, Lacquer and Inro (London, 1914), no. 914, pl XLIV
Andrew J. Pekarik, Japanese Lacquer, 1600-1900: Selections from the Charles A. Greenfield Collection (New York, 1980), cat. no. 102, fig. 115
V-F. Weber, Koji Hoten, Dictionnaire l'Usage des Amateurs et Collectionneurs d'Objets d'Art Japonais et Chinois (Paris, 1923), vol. II, no. 4, pl. XL

Exhibited

New York, 1980, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Lot Essay

For another inro with the same nawa noren design, see Yanagi Reiko, Edo no sui - Inro, netsuke: Inro bijutsukan kanzohin zuroku [Epitomes of Edo Culture - Inro and Netsuke: Inro Museum, A Photographic Record of Exhibits] (Takayama, 1990), cat. no. 6, signed Koma Yasutada.

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