A Three-Case Inro

EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

细节

A Three-Case Inro
Edo period (19th century)
Finely decorated in iroe-hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, nashiji and togidashi-e with a Chinese scholar looking out from a pavilion over a lotus pond, the reverse with Chinese figures drinking tea among rocks and chrysanthemums
9.3cm. high

拍品专文

O Gishi [Wang Xizhi (303-361AD)] is one of the great masters of calligraphy. This inro depicts the historical event at the Orchid Pavilion on 3rd March in 353AD when O Gishi held a drinking party of Kyokusui. He wrote a preface for the poems written at the party called Rantei-jo which became one of the most copied pieces in Chinese calligraphy.

For similar subject on an illustrated scroll see Rantei-ryu-sho-zu narabini Rantei-shojyo Bokutakukan of Wanli period (TB-1385) in the Tokyo National Museum.