A THREE-CASE LACQUER INRO
FROM THE ANKARCRONA COLLECTION OF JAPANESE LACQUER AND ASIAN WORKS OF ART
A THREE-CASE LACQUER INRO

SIGNED KOMA YASUTADA SAKU, EDO PERIOD (LATE 18TH - EARLY 19TH CENTURY)

Details
A THREE-CASE LACQUER INRO
SIGNED KOMA YASUTADA SAKU, EDO PERIOD (LATE 18TH - EARLY 19TH CENTURY)
Decorated on a rogin ground in togidashi sumi-e and details in red and black togidashi-e, with two swallows flying over breaking waves and a third on the reverse has landed on the water; nashiji interiors and risers; attached carved-wood netsuke of mushrooms, aubergines and gourds, signed Tomonobu and kakihan
3 ¼ in. (8.2 cm.) high
Provenance
Walter Lionel Behrens Collection
Paul Corbin Collection
Literature
Eskenazi Ltd., Japanese Inro and Lacquer-ware from a Private Swedish Collection, (London, 1996), no. 12, p. 22-23.
Hôtel Drouot: Auction Catalogue of the Paul Corbin Collection, Paris, 1926, no. 98.

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