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The Edward Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art
A BLACK LACQUER THREE-CASE INRO
JAPAN, EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY), SIGNED KANSAI SAKU (KOMA KANSAI)
Details
A BLACK LACQUER THREE-CASE INRO
JAPAN, EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY), SIGNED KANSAI SAKU (KOMA KANSAI)
The broad, rectangular body with a rich roiro ground lacquered in delicate gold and iro-e togidashi maki-e and e-nashiji with a goose swimming on calm rippled waters among lotus plants on one side and a clump of stalks of blue-bearded irises growing among reeds on the reverse, the interior of red lacquer with matt gold lacquer risers, signed on the base in gold hiramaki-e Kansai saku, with an inlaid bronze tubular ojime decorated with irises in silver high relief, signed Tomoyuki within a rectangular reserve, and a two-part lacquered manju-netsuke inlaid in coloured shell high relief with three ants crawling beside two sprays of berried leaves, signed on the reverse Akashi within a carved red-lacquer rectangular reserve.
2 ½ in. (6.5 cm.) high
JAPAN, EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY), SIGNED KANSAI SAKU (KOMA KANSAI)
The broad, rectangular body with a rich roiro ground lacquered in delicate gold and iro-e togidashi maki-e and e-nashiji with a goose swimming on calm rippled waters among lotus plants on one side and a clump of stalks of blue-bearded irises growing among reeds on the reverse, the interior of red lacquer with matt gold lacquer risers, signed on the base in gold hiramaki-e Kansai saku, with an inlaid bronze tubular ojime decorated with irises in silver high relief, signed Tomoyuki within a rectangular reserve, and a two-part lacquered manju-netsuke inlaid in coloured shell high relief with three ants crawling beside two sprays of berried leaves, signed on the reverse Akashi within a carved red-lacquer rectangular reserve.
2 ½ in. (6.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Walter Lionel Behrens Collection.
Demaree and Dorothy Bess Collection.
Purchased from Eskenazi Ltd., London, 1990, Charles A. Greenfield collection, no.165, with original collector's label.
Wrangham Collection, no.2007, with original collector's label.
Demaree and Dorothy Bess Collection.
Purchased from Eskenazi Ltd., London, 1990, Charles A. Greenfield collection, no.165, with original collector's label.
Wrangham Collection, no.2007, with original collector's label.
Literature
Harold P. Stern, THE MAGNIFICENT THREE: LACQUER, NETSUKE, AND TSUBA, Selections from the Collection of Charles A. Greenfield, exhibition catalogue, New York, Japan Society, Inc., 1972, p.81, no.148.
Eskenazi Ltd., The Charles A. Greenfield Collection of Japanese Lacquer, London, 1990, no.98.
Eskenazi Ltd., The Charles A. Greenfield Collection of Japanese Lacquer, London, 1990, no.98.
Exhibited
New York, Japan House Gallery, THE MAGNIFICENT THREE: LACQUER, NETSUKE, AND TSUBA, Selections from the Collection of Charles A. Greenfield, autumn 1972.
Brought to you by
Zheng Ma
Head of Department, Senior Specialist