Lot 370
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A Four-Case Inro
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A Four-Case Inro

EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

Details
A Four-Case Inro
Edo Period (19th century)
Decorated in sumi-togidashi-e on a kinji ground with a boat on a lake in a rocky landscape, signed Tsunenobu zu [design by Tsunenobu] and sealed Tsunenobu, nashiji interiors, fundame rims
8cm. high
Provenance
The Marquis Costa de Beauregard
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

Kano Tsunenobu (1636-1713) was a painter of the Kano family and his designs were often used for inro decorations.1

1. George Lazarnick, Netsuke and Inro Artists and How to Read Their Signatures (Honolulu, 1982), p.1200

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