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SIGNED KOUNSAI AND SEALED, EDO PERIOD (EARLY 19TH CENTURY)
Details
A Four-Case Inro
Signed Kounsai and sealed, Edo Period (early 19th century)
Decorated in rich brown lacquer and inlaid in coloured cloisonné enamels in Hirata style with a cicada in a pine tree, the reverse with rocks, nashiji interiors, fundame rims, iron ojime in the form of a vase similarly inlaid in cloisonné enamels
6.9cm. high
Signed Kounsai and sealed, Edo Period (early 19th century)
Decorated in rich brown lacquer and inlaid in coloured cloisonné enamels in Hirata style with a cicada in a pine tree, the reverse with rocks, nashiji interiors, fundame rims, iron ojime in the form of a vase similarly inlaid in cloisonné enamels
6.9cm. high
Provenance
Tomkinson Collection no.829
The Marquis Costa de Beauregard
The Marquis Costa de Beauregard
Literature
Edward Gilbertson and others, A Japanese Collection Made by Michael Tomkinson (London, 1898)
E.A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists (Harehope, 1995), p.151
E.A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists (Harehope, 1995), p.151
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.