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A four-case black lacquer ground inro
decorated in gold, silver and aokin hiramaki-e and takamaki-e and shell with a glowering tiger, the reverse with part of a pine tree; compartments and risers gold nashiji; shoulders and rims gold lacquer -- 3.3/8in. (8.6cms) high, signed in gold hiramaki-e underneath Minamoto Okyo no zu o utsushite Toyo (copied by Toyo from a design by Minamoto Okyo) with a kao, 19th Century; two coloured polished stone ojime; ivory netsuke as a seated tiger, late 18th/19th Century.
See Colour Plate 1.
Designs by Maruyama Okyo (1733-95), the most influential painter of late 18th Century Japan, were often used by inro-decorators. The pine tree on the reverse may be indirectly based on one of his most famous compositions, the pair of six-fold screens of Pine Trees in the Snow, see William Watson (ed.), The Great Japan Exhibition: Art of the Edo Period 1600-1868 (London, 1981), cat. no. 70.
decorated in gold, silver and aokin hiramaki-e and takamaki-e and shell with a glowering tiger, the reverse with part of a pine tree; compartments and risers gold nashiji; shoulders and rims gold lacquer -- 3.3/8in. (8.6cms) high, signed in gold hiramaki-e underneath Minamoto Okyo no zu o utsushite Toyo (copied by Toyo from a design by Minamoto Okyo) with a kao, 19th Century; two coloured polished stone ojime; ivory netsuke as a seated tiger, late 18th/19th Century.
See Colour Plate 1.
Designs by Maruyama Okyo (1733-95), the most influential painter of late 18th Century Japan, were often used by inro-decorators. The pine tree on the reverse may be indirectly based on one of his most famous compositions, the pair of six-fold screens of Pine Trees in the Snow, see William Watson (ed.), The Great Japan Exhibition: Art of the Edo Period 1600-1868 (London, 1981), cat. no. 70.
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