A CARVED-LACQUER PLAQUE

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A CARVED-LACQUER PLAQUE
(20th century), signed yusai [maho yusai (1899-1976)]

The rectangular wood panel executed in colored carved lacquer (iro-e chinkin) with three carp swimming in a pool, the water black and gold togidashi, the scales of the fish carved in diamond patterns of carved gold and red lacquer, signed lower left Yusai and with kakihan, framed and glazed--14¼ x 17¼in. (36.2 x 43.7cm.) sight