A Four-Case Mother-of-Pearl and Lacquer Inro**
A Four-Case Mother-of-Pearl and Lacquer Inro**

EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

Details
A Four-Case Mother-of-Pearl and Lacquer Inro**
Edo period (19th century)
Designed with numerous chrysanthemums in two shades of gold lacquer on a mother-of-pearl ground, the interiors nashiji; fitted with a gilt-metal ojime carved with flowers and clouds
3½in. (8.8cm.) long
Provenance
Charles A. Greenfield
Alexander Moslé, sold Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 22 April, 1948, lot 11
Exhibited
Königliches Kunstgewerbe-Museum, Berlin, "Japanische Kunstwerke: Waffen, Schwertzieraten, Lacke, Gewebe, Holzschnitte, Sammlung Moslé," 1909

Japan House Gallery, Japan Society, New York, "The Magnificent Three: Lacquer, Netsuke, and Tsuba," autumn 1972

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Alexander G. Moslé, Japanische Kunstwerke: Waffen, Schwertzieraten, Lacke, Gewebe, Holzschnitte, Sammlung Moslé, exh. cat. (Berlin: Konigliches Kunstgewerbe Museum, 1909).

Henry L. Joly, Japanese Works of Art Selected form the Moslé Collection, reprint of Leipzig, 1914 (Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1914), plate 117.

Harold P. Stern, The Magnificent Three: Lacquer, Netsuke, and Tsuba, exh. cat. (New York: Japan Society, 1972), no. 177.

Alexander Georg Moslé (1862-1949) was a German businessman who represented a Krupp subsidiary in Japan in the 19th century. He formed a distinguished art collection during his years in Japan (1884-1907) with the help of Japanese experts.

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