A FOUR-CASE KINJI GROUND INRO

SIGNED MITSUTOSHI AND SEALED YAMAMOTO, MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)

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A FOUR-CASE KINJI GROUND INRO
Signed Mitsutoshi and Sealed Yamamoto, Meiji Period (Late 19th Century)
Decorated in gold hiramakie and takamakie and inlaid in mother-of-pearl with warblers on and above blossoming plum branches, nashiji and kirikane interiors, slight old wear, a gold lacquered wood ojime
3¼in. (8.3cm.) long

Provenance

Swedlow Collection

Lot Essay

Yamamoto Mitsutoshi worked in Kyoto during the Meiji period (1868-1912). See Wrangham, E.A., Index of Inro Artists, (Harehope, Northumberland, 1995), p.180.
Jahss records a Mitsutoshi, with the family name of Yamamoto, as having worked in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This inro is probably early Meiji period, and possibly by a pupil of the recorded artist.

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