EDO PERIOD (18TH AND 19TH CENTURY)

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THREE INRO
Edo Period (18th and 19th Century)
An unusual two-case inro, turned wood ground; decoration in gold and coloured takamaki-e simulating copper; the lower compartment with a separate tray; compartments and risers black lacquer; signed underneath in stylised characters within a square border Hanzan, old damage; lacquered ojime with flower decoration; an antique five-sen coin serving as a netsuke

Decorated with five antique coins

A good guri-bori two-case inro, the design carved through more than nine layers of black, red and yellow lacquer; compartments, risers, shoulders and rims black lacquer; cloisonné enamel ojime
Each side with a panel of guri scrolls within a frame of Greek key motifs

And a four-case black lacquer ground inro; decoration in gold hiramaki-e and togidashi-e with gold flakes, dust and shell; compartments and risers gold nashiji; shoulders and rims gold lacquer; metal ojime in the form of a ring with a duck on one side and a tree-trunk on the other; wood netsuke as a stylised bird with
decoration in gold hiramaki-e

Both sides with a flock of chidori [wave-birds or dotterels] flying above a tree-lined seashore
3in. (7.6cm.), 2½in. (6.2cm.) and 25/8in. (6.6cm.) respectively (3)

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Lot Essay

Hanzan (1743-90) called himself the second Haritsu although he was neither son nor pupil of Ritsuo. For a very similar example see Honolulu Academy of Arts, Shadows and Reflections: Japanese Lacquer Art from the Collection of Edmund J. Lewis (Hong Kong, 1996), cat. no. 29.

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