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The Edward Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art
A BLACK LACQUER FOUR-CASE INRO
JAPAN, EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY), SEALED JOKA (YAMADA JOKASAI LINEAGE)
Details
A BLACK LACQUER FOUR-CASE INRO
JAPAN, EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY), SEALED JOKA (YAMADA JOKASAI LINEAGE)
The square rectangular body with a roiro ground lacquered in gold and slight-coloured takamaki-e with a tethered, caparisoned horse in a stable beneath a brocade curtain on one side and a falcon standing on an elaborate tasselled perch on the other, the interior risers of nashiji, signed in gold hiramaki-e on the base with seal characters Joka, with an amber ojime.
2 ¾ in. (7 cm.) high
JAPAN, EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY), SEALED JOKA (YAMADA JOKASAI LINEAGE)
The square rectangular body with a roiro ground lacquered in gold and slight-coloured takamaki-e with a tethered, caparisoned horse in a stable beneath a brocade curtain on one side and a falcon standing on an elaborate tasselled perch on the other, the interior risers of nashiji, signed in gold hiramaki-e on the base with seal characters Joka, with an amber ojime.
2 ¾ in. (7 cm.) high
Provenance
Philippe Stoclet Collection, purchased at Sotheby's London, 3 May 1965.
Wrangham Collection, no.519, with original collector's label.
Wrangham Collection, no.519, with original collector's label.
Literature
INRO: An exhibition of Japanese Inro from the collection of E.A. Wrangham, exhibition catalogue, Oxford, 1972, p.23, cat. no. 20 (ill.)
Exhibited
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, INRO: An exhibition of Japanese Inro from the collection of E.A. Wrangham, 9 October - 4 November 1972.
Brought to you by
Zheng Ma
Head of Department, Senior Specialist