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UNSIGNED, 18TH CENTURY
Details
A three-case inro
Unsigned, 18th Century
Of tea-jar shape, brown lacquer ground, decoration in cut and incised mother of pearl and twisted wire, with a lobed panel of a landscape, the reverse with a poem, the compartments and risers black lacquer, unsigned
2¾in. (7cm.)
Unsigned, 18th Century
Of tea-jar shape, brown lacquer ground, decoration in cut and incised mother of pearl and twisted wire, with a lobed panel of a landscape, the reverse with a poem, the compartments and risers black lacquer, unsigned
2¾in. (7cm.)
Provenance
Dr Mene
W.L. Behrens
Norman Collie
W.L. Behrens
Norman Collie
Literature
Else and Heinz Kress, Inro of the Ryukyus, Lacquered Medicine Containers (Bonn, 2002), p. 89 (although whereabouts unknown at the time of publication)
Special notice
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