EDO PERIOD (LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY)

細節

TWO INRO [MEDICINE CASES]
Edo Period (Late 18th/Early 19th Century)
The first: three-case; red lacquer ground; decoration in gold, silver, black and red hiramaki-e [low-relief lacquer]; compartments and risers gold nashiji [gold flakes suspended in clear lacquer]; rims gold lacquer; on one side drums and drumsticks in a temple building, on the other side a courtier sleeping on the engawa [veranda]; signed in gold hiramaki-e [low-relief lacquer] on the base Koma Kyuhaku saku [made by Koma Kyuhaku];

the second: two-case; brown lacquer ground; decoration in gold hiramaki-e [low-relief lacquer] and shell; compartments and risers gold nashiji [gold flakes suspended in clear lacquer]; rims gold lacquer; a crane on one side and three chidori [plovers] on the reverse; signed in black lacquer on the base Shigekata, with a kao
2 5/16 x 2 11/16in. (5.9 x 6.8cm.) and 1 13/16 x 2¾in. (4.6 x 7.0cm.) respectively (2)

來源

The first, Edward Gilbertson collection (5744)

注意事項

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

拍品專文

Shigekata, a little-known artist, is recorded by Wrangham, who places him in the second half of the 18th century.¹

1 E. A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists (Joe Earle, ed; Harehope, Northumberland: Harehope Publications, 1995), p. 236.