SIGNED MOEI, EDO PERIOD (LATE18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY)

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A FOUR-CASE INRO
Signed Moei, Edo Period (Late18th/Early 19th Century)
Black lacquer ground; decoration in gold, silver and coloured togidashi-e; compartments and risers gold nashiji; shoulders and rims gold lacquer; signed in gold hiramaki-e underneath Moei with a red lacquer seal Tomi; three puppies playing amongst susuki grasses
27/8in. (7.3cm.) long

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Lot Essay

This artist should be distinguished from the Moei of lot 87, 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.

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