SIGNED NARA TOSHINAGA (JUEI), EDO PERIOD (LATE 18TH/19TH CENTURY)

细节

A TWO-CASE METAL INRO
Signed Nara Toshinaga (Juei), Edo Period (Late 18th/19th Century)
Shibuichi; decoration in gold, silver and copper; signed underneath in incised characters arranged in a square Nara Toshinaga (Juei); six-lobed silver ojime; circular silver netsuke with openwork decoration

A Kano-style landscape with a fishing-boat and waterside pavilion beneath tall mountains
23/8in. (6.0cm.) high

注意事项

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拍品专文

The only Toshinaga or Juei written with these two characters and recorded by Wrangham was a netsuke carver, but Wrangham does also list a metalworker called Yoshitsugu who used the name Jueisai. This may perhaps be an example of his work, in which case the word Nara would simple be a hommage to the three great Nara 'school' metalworkers Joi, Yasuchika and Toshinaga (written with different characters).1

1 See E.A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists (Harehope, 1995), pp. 308, 339.