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EDO PERIOD (18TH-19TH CENTURY)
Details
A Four-Case Inro
Edo Period (18th-19th century)
Decorated in gold, silver and red hiramaki-e, small strips of gold foil and iridescent shell over a fine ground of tamagoji [quail egg-shell] with a cockerel startled by a weasel, nashiji interiors, fundame rims
7.9cm. high
Edo Period (18th-19th century)
Decorated in gold, silver and red hiramaki-e, small strips of gold foil and iridescent shell over a fine ground of tamagoji [quail egg-shell] with a cockerel startled by a weasel, nashiji interiors, fundame rims
7.9cm. high
Provenance
Tomkinson Collection
Literature
Edward Gilbertson and others, A Japanese Collection Made by Michael Tomkinson (London, 1898), plate XLII
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.