MOMOYAMA - EDO PERIOD (LATE 16TH - EARLY 17TH CENTURY)

Details

A FOUR-CASE INRO
Momoyama - Edo Period (Late 16th - Early 17th Century)
The black lacquer ground decorated in high takamaki-e with a bold and powerful design of three chaire, two in wide open bags and one in a closed bag, the reverse with two more in open bags, the brocade of the bags enriched with kirikane and aogai-kirikane, each of the four visible chaire in ochre lacquer with black 'drips of glaze' running down from the shoulder, the risers and compartments in black lacquer
7.9cm. high

Provenance

W.L. Behrens

Literature

Henry L. Joly, W.L. Behrens, part II, Lacquer and Inro (London, 1912), no. 1106, pl. XLVIII.

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Lot Essay

Tea ceremony was very much in vogue at the end of the Momoyama Period under the great masters Furuta Oribe and, in particular, Sen no Rikyu.
For another inro similarly decorated and of similar period see Henry L. Joly, W.L. Behrens, part II, Lacquer and Inro (London, 1912), no. 1365, pl. L.

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