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SIGNED MASAAKI, EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)
Details
An Impressive Shibayama style inro
Signed Masaaki, Edo Period (19th Century)
Modelled as a double gourd and decorated in silver and gold hiramakie, takamakie, togidashie and okibirame and Shibayama inlay, with a landscape with a palace and garden, Mt Fuji in the distance, Fukurokuju falling off a flying crane, beneath him karako, Ebisu, Benten, Hotei, Jurojin, Bishamon and Daikoku, a metal ojime with a mouse on leaves, signed Masatoshi koku, brocade bag
7½in. (19cm.) long
Signed Masaaki, Edo Period (19th Century)
Modelled as a double gourd and decorated in silver and gold hiramakie, takamakie, togidashie and okibirame and Shibayama inlay, with a landscape with a palace and garden, Mt Fuji in the distance, Fukurokuju falling off a flying crane, beneath him karako, Ebisu, Benten, Hotei, Jurojin, Bishamon and Daikoku, a metal ojime with a mouse on leaves, signed Masatoshi koku, brocade bag
7½in. (19cm.) long
Provenance
With Collection no. 139.