SIGNED KOMA YASUTADA SAKU, EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

Details

A Three-Case Inro
Signed Koma Yasutada saku, Edo Period (19th century)
Decorated in iroe-takamaki-e and hirame on a polished black lacquer ground with sprinkled gold to the lower half, with a bird on a flowering camellia branch, red lacquer interiors, fundame risers and rims
7.6cm. high

Provenance

Tomkinson Collection no.707

Literature

Edward Gilbertson and others, A Japanese Collection Made by Michael Tomkinson (London, 1898)

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

This inro is one of a set of one hundred known as the 'Gifu set', commissioned for presentation to the shogun, each featuring a different bird matched with appropriate plants. Nine were owned by Tomkinson and several are in the Baur collection.1

1. E.A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists (Harehope, 1995), p.327-8

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