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The Edward Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art
A GOLD LACQUER FOUR-CASE INRO
JAPAN, EDO PERIOD (EARLY 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED YOYUSAI WITH CURSIVE MONOGRAM (KAO) (HARA YOYUSAI; 1772-1845)
Details
A GOLD LACQUER FOUR-CASE INRO
JAPAN, EDO PERIOD (EARLY 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED YOYUSAI WITH CURSIVE MONOGRAM (KAO) (HARA YOYUSAI; 1772-1845)
The small rounded rectangular body with a lustrous roiro ground strikingly lacquered in contrasting gold and iro-e takamaki-e with an all-over design of an autumnal moonlit dense forest scene with a myriad of predatory birds and prey perched on the gnarled branches of ivy-clad trees, comprising a hunting owl and a pair of crows on one side and a hawk, two finches and a monkey swinging from the branches on the other, all reserved on a ground of fern and foliage embellished in delicate gold togidashi maki-e, the design continuing over the surface of the top case, the cord runners of shibuichi and in the form of flutes alluding to the sounds of the forest at night, the interior of rich gyobu flakes, signed on the base in gold hiramaki-e Yoyusai with a kao, with a small stone ojime.
2 ½ in. (6.25 cm.) high
JAPAN, EDO PERIOD (EARLY 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED YOYUSAI WITH CURSIVE MONOGRAM (KAO) (HARA YOYUSAI; 1772-1845)
The small rounded rectangular body with a lustrous roiro ground strikingly lacquered in contrasting gold and iro-e takamaki-e with an all-over design of an autumnal moonlit dense forest scene with a myriad of predatory birds and prey perched on the gnarled branches of ivy-clad trees, comprising a hunting owl and a pair of crows on one side and a hawk, two finches and a monkey swinging from the branches on the other, all reserved on a ground of fern and foliage embellished in delicate gold togidashi maki-e, the design continuing over the surface of the top case, the cord runners of shibuichi and in the form of flutes alluding to the sounds of the forest at night, the interior of rich gyobu flakes, signed on the base in gold hiramaki-e Yoyusai with a kao, with a small stone ojime.
2 ½ in. (6.25 cm.) high
Provenance
Purchased at Lempertz, Cologne, 11 May, 1966.
Wrangham Collection, no.705, with original collector's label.
Wrangham Collection, no.705, with original collector's label.
Literature
INRO: An exhibition of Japanese Inro from the collection of E.A. Wrangham, exhibition catalogue, Oxford, 1972, p.27, cat. no. 39 (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