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SIGNED BUNRYUSAI, EDO PERIOD (EARLY/MID-19TH CENTURY)
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A FOUR-CASE INRO [MEDICINE CASE]
Signed Bunryusai, Edo Period (Early/Mid-19th Century)
Black lacquer ground sprinkled with gold flakes; each side with a circular gold-lacquer panel decorated in gold, silver and coloured hiramaki-e [low-relief lacquer] embellished with gold flakes; compartments and risers gold nashiji [gold flakes suspended in clear lacquer]; rims gold lacquer; the sides of the inner compartments each with two lobed cut-outs
One side with the Getto [Moon-Palace]; the other side with a Chinese goddess and attendant on clouds, signed in gold hiramaki-e [low-relief lacquer] on the base Bunryusai, with a red kao; mokume [marbled] lacquer ojime [bead]; wood kagami netsuke with central panel carved with a simple Chinese-style landscape with figures crossing a bridge
2 3/8 x 2 5/8in. (6 x 6.8cm.)
Signed Bunryusai, Edo Period (Early/Mid-19th Century)
Black lacquer ground sprinkled with gold flakes; each side with a circular gold-lacquer panel decorated in gold, silver and coloured hiramaki-e [low-relief lacquer] embellished with gold flakes; compartments and risers gold nashiji [gold flakes suspended in clear lacquer]; rims gold lacquer; the sides of the inner compartments each with two lobed cut-outs
One side with the Getto [Moon-Palace]; the other side with a Chinese goddess and attendant on clouds, signed in gold hiramaki-e [low-relief lacquer] on the base Bunryusai, with a red kao; mokume [marbled] lacquer ojime [bead]; wood kagami netsuke with central panel carved with a simple Chinese-style landscape with figures crossing a bridge
2 3/8 x 2 5/8in. (6 x 6.8cm.)
Provenance
Charles A. Greenfield
Literature
Harold P. Stern, The Magnificent Three: Lacquer, Netsuke and Inro. Selections from the Collection of Charles A. Greenfield (New York: Japan Society, 1972), no. 139.
Exhibited
Japan House Gallery, New York, 1972
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.