SIGNED KAJIKAWA AND NAOTSUNE, EDO PERIOD (LATE 18TH CENTURY)

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A FOUR-CASE INRO
Signed Kajikawa and Naotsune, Edo Period (Late 18th Century)
Gold lacquer ground; decoration in gold, silver and red hiramaki-e and togidashi-e, tortoiseshell and ivory, and in overlay of gold, silver and other metals; risers gold nashiji; compartments, shoulders and rims gold lacquer; signed in gold hiramaki-e underneath Kajikawa saku [made by Kajikawa] and in incised characters on an inlaid gold plaque Yanagawa Naotsune; dull gold-lacquered ojime and netsuke

A domestic interior with a woman preparing fan leaves seated in front of a folding screen; on the other side a tokonoma alcove with hanging scroll, flower arrangement and incense-burner
23/8in. (6.7cm.) high

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Lot Essay

The signature of the metalworker Yanagawa Naotsune appears on a number of late 18th-century inro.1

1 E.A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists (Harehope, 1995), pp. 197- 8.

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