A three-case inro**

TAISHO-SHOWA PERIOD (EARLY 20TH CENTURY), SIGNED NARIYUKI SAKU AND SEALED IMAIZUMI

Details

A three-case inro**
Taisho-Showa period (early 20th century), signed Nariyuki saku and sealed Imaizumi
Decorated in varicolored gold, silver, red, green and black hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, kirikane and inlaid aogai with two beauties and a girl attendant beneath a willow tree watching fireflies on a riverbank, all against a roiro and gradated nashiji ground, the sky black lacquer highlighted with hirame, the river gold and black togidashi and the interior dense nashiji; with an ivory netsuke of a woman writing on a scroll with a brush, signed Yasuaki (Kodama Yasuaki) and sealed; with a coral bead ojime
3in. (7.6cm.) long

Provenance

Netsuke ex coll. I.A. and Cecile Mann Victor

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Lot Essay

For a very similar design, see Inro: Shanpu korekushon Inro: The Champoud Collection, intro. by Trudel Klefisch (Kyoto: Kyoto Shoin, 1984), pl. 267.

Netsuke previously sold in our Park Avenue Rooms, The I.A. and Cecil Mann Victor Collection of Netsuke, 20 April, 1989, lot 144

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