AN EARLY FOUR-CASE INRO
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AN EARLY FOUR-CASE INRO

MOMOYAMA-EDO PERIOD, (EARLY-MID 17TH CENTURY)

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AN EARLY FOUR-CASE INRO
MOMOYAMA-EDO PERIOD, (Early-Mid 17th Century)
The nashiji ground, rubbed through to brown and black, decorated in takamaki-e with the large figures of three foreigners, either Tartars or Europeans, one holding a bow and another an uchiwa fan, all wearing tall-bowled hats with mokko-shaped brims, behind them two trees and a Chinese-style railing, the interior in nashiji and traces of ointments and powder in the cases, an early gilt yamagane ojime of a south-seas islander gripping the cord with his arms and legs and the kagamibuta netsuke consists of a horn cup with a yamagane nanako plate raised in partly gilt takabori with a Dutchman sticking a two-pronged fork into a large round cheese
9.0cm. high
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拍品專文

An inro of very similar techniques, again with two large figures of foreigners, probably Portuguese, of the same period is illustrated, Itabashi Art Museum, Namban Art, (Tokyo, 1987), No. 60.