拍品 87
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A FOUR-CASE INRO
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A FOUR-CASE INRO

SIGNED SHIGENAGA (MOEI), EDO PERIOD (LATE 18TH/19TH CENTURY)

细节
A FOUR-CASE INRO
Signed Shigenaga (Moei), Edo Period (Late 18th/19th Century)
Black lacquer ground; decoration in gold, aokin and red takamaki-e and gold flakes and dust, with overlay of ivory, shell and other materials; compartments and risers gold nashiji; shoulders and rims gold lacquer; signed in gold hiramaki-e underneath Shigenaga (Moei); ivory ojime with Shibayama-style insects

Pomegranate trees with bursting fruit; on one side a bird about to peck at one of the pomegranates
33/8in. (8.6cm.) long
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拍品专文

This artist should be distinguished from the Moei of lot no. 98, whose name is written with a different second character; both lacquerers are thought to have worked at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. See E.A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists (Harehope, Northumberland, 1995), pp. 182-3.