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AN IMPRESSIVE FOUR-CASE INRO
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AN IMPRESSIVE FOUR-CASE INRO

SIGNED IWAMA MASAYOSHI AND TATSUKE TAKAMASU, EDO PERIOD (LATE 18TH - EARLY 19TH CENTURY)

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AN IMPRESSIVE FOUR-CASE INRO
Signed Iwama Masayoshi and Tatsuke Takamasu, Edo Period (Late 18th - Early 19th Century)
The black lacquer ground inlaid in high relief in two colours gold, shakudo and dark shibuichi depicting Shoki, the reverse decorated in red, ochre and gold usu-niku-takamaki-e with the signature and seal of Sesshu, compartments and risers nashiji, fundame rims, signed in gold on the base, the ojime in the form of a sea shell with small incrustations of molluscs
7.9cm. high
Provenance
James Orange
Literature
James Orange, Catalogue of a Small Collection of Japanese Lacquer (Hong Kong, 1907).
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Lot Essay

It seems probable that Masayoshi followed a design of Shoki by Sesshu (1420-1506).
Iwama Masayoshi (1764 -1837) was primarily a maker of sword fittings, a student of the Hamano school artists Naoyuki, Nobuyuki and Nagayuki, who lived and worked in Edo (modern day Tokyo).

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