A THREE-CASE INRO

SIGNED JOKASAI, EDO PERIOD (LATE 18TH CENTURY)

Details

A THREE-CASE INRO
Signed Jokasai, Edo Period (Late 18th Century)
With gold lacquer; decoration in togidashi-e imitating ink-painting; compartments and risers silver lacquer; shoulders and rims gold lacquer; signed in gold hiramaki-e Hogen Jotekisai ga Jokasai [Jokasai after a painting by Hogen Jotekisai]; netsuke ivory, a dragon holding a jewel; amber ojime

A dragon emerging from the waves in the style of a Kano ink-painting on a gold paper screen
3.3/8in. (8.5cm.) long

Provenance

Alexander G. Mosl Collection
Charles A. Greenfield Collection

Literature

Eskenazi Limited, The Charles A. Greenfield Collection of Japanese Lacquer (London, 1990), cat. no. 86
Knigliches Kunstgewerbe Museum, Ausstellung Japanische Kunstwerke Sammlung Mosl (Berlin, 1909), no. 1740
Andrew J. Pekarik, Japanese Lacquer, 1600-1900: Selections from the Charles A. Greenfield Collection (New York, 1980), cat. no. 86, fig. 104
E. A. Seemann, The Mosl Collection: Descriptive Catalogue (Leipzig, 1914), vol. II, no. 1740, pl. CXVI
Harold P. Stern, Birds, Beasts, Blossoms and Bugs (New York, 1976), no. 100
Harold P. Stern, The Magnificent Three: Lacquer, Netsuke and Tsuba (New York, 1972), no. 106 (inro)

Exhibited

Berlin, 1909, Knigliches Kunstgewerbe Museum
New York, 1972, Japan House Gallery
Los Angeles, 1976, University of California, Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery
New York, 1977, Asia House Gallery
New York, 1980, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sale room notice

Please note this inro does not have a netsuke.

Lot Essay

For similar examples, see Martha Boyer, Catalogue of Japanese Lacquers [in the Walters Art Gallery] (Baltimore, 1970), no. 106, pl. 32, signed Jokasai and Julia Hutt,Japanese Inro [in the Victoria and Albert Museum] (London, 1997), pl. 68 (inv. no.W.104-1922), also signed Jokasai.

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