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The Edward Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art
A BLACK LACQUER THREE-CASE INRO
JAPAN, EDO PERIOD (MID-LATE 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED HIDETERU
Details
A BLACK LACQUER THREE-CASE INRO
JAPAN, EDO PERIOD (MID-LATE 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED HIDETERU
The rounded rectangular body with a lustrous roiro ground lacquered in iro-e togidashi maki-e and hiramaki-e with a continuous design of a large red tai (seabream) fish with a stem of bamboo in its mouth and wedged in its gills, its upturned tail shown on the reverse thrashing between a crayfish and a fugu fish, the interior of rich nashiji, the base signed in gold hiramaki-e Hideteru; with a lacquered stone ojime decorated with abstract motifs.
2 ¾ in. (7 cm.) high
JAPAN, EDO PERIOD (MID-LATE 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED HIDETERU
The rounded rectangular body with a lustrous roiro ground lacquered in iro-e togidashi maki-e and hiramaki-e with a continuous design of a large red tai (seabream) fish with a stem of bamboo in its mouth and wedged in its gills, its upturned tail shown on the reverse thrashing between a crayfish and a fugu fish, the interior of rich nashiji, the base signed in gold hiramaki-e Hideteru; with a lacquered stone ojime decorated with abstract motifs.
2 ¾ in. (7 cm.) high
Provenance
T. B. Kitson Collection.
Wrangham Collection, no.43, with original collector's label.
Wrangham Collection, no.43, with original collector's label.
Literature
INRO: An exhibition of Japanese Inro from the collection of E.A. Wrangham, exhibition catalogue, Oxford, 1972, p.30, cat. no. 51 (ill.)
E. A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists, Harehope, Northumberland, Harehope Publications, 1995, p.72, Hideteru (right).
E. A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists, Harehope, Northumberland, Harehope Publications, 1995, p.72, Hideteru (right).
Exhibited
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, INRO: An exhibition of Japanese Inro from the collection of E.A. Wrangham, 9 October - 4 November 1972.
Brought to you by
Zheng Ma
Head of Department, Senior Specialist