SIGNED SHIOMI MASANARI, EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

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A FOUR-CASE INRO
Signed Shiomi Masanari, Edo Period (19th Century)
Brown lacquer ground; decoration in gold, aokin, silver and coloured togidashi-e; compartments red lacquer; shoulders and rims gold lacquer; with a red lacquer seal Shiomi Masanari on one side; coral ojime; wood box netsuke with the moon, a goose and daisies in gold, silver and coloured hiramaki-e, signed Seisai in gold hiramaki-e
Each side with a butterfly dancer
3 7/8in. (9.8cm.) high

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拍品专文

This motif is taken from earlier depictions in lacquer of Chapter 24, Kocho [Butterflies], of the 11th-century novel Genji monogatari [The Tale of Genji]. The same figures were also depicted by Yamamoto Shunsho (1610-81), founder of the Yamamoto line of lacquerers, in his illustrations to a woodblock edition of the novel published in 1650.1 The formation of Seisai's signature, which appears on the netsuke, suggests that he was a pupil of Shibata Zeshin or Ikeda Taishin, despite the fact that a work with this signature was described as 18th century in the Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition held in 1894.2

1 Shikibu Murasaki, The Tale of Genji (E. G. Seidensticker tr.; London, 1976), p. 422.
2 E.A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists (Harehope, 1995), pp. 227-8.