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The Edward Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art
A BLACK LACQUER THREE-CASE INRO
JAPAN, MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH-EARLY 20TH CENTURY), SIGNED REISAI UTSUSU (SHIBATA REISAI;1850-1915)
Details
A BLACK LACQUER THREE-CASE INRO
JAPAN, MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH-EARLY 20TH CENTURY), SIGNED REISAI UTSUSU (SHIBATA REISAI;1850-1915)
The small rounded rectangular body with a lustrous roiro ground lacquered in gold takamaki-e with a wasp hovering beneath a wasp's nest on one side and two more wasps on the other, the design of the nest continuing over the surface of the cover, the interior risers of plain black lacquer, signed in gold hiramaki-e on the base Reisai utsusu, with a miniature shakudo ojime inlaid on each side in silver and shakudo low relief with a solitary butterfly.
2 3⁄8 in. (6 cm.) high
JAPAN, MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH-EARLY 20TH CENTURY), SIGNED REISAI UTSUSU (SHIBATA REISAI;1850-1915)
The small rounded rectangular body with a lustrous roiro ground lacquered in gold takamaki-e with a wasp hovering beneath a wasp's nest on one side and two more wasps on the other, the design of the nest continuing over the surface of the cover, the interior risers of plain black lacquer, signed in gold hiramaki-e on the base Reisai utsusu, with a miniature shakudo ojime inlaid on each side in silver and shakudo low relief with a solitary butterfly.
2 3⁄8 in. (6 cm.) high
Provenance
Purchased at Sotheby's London, 24 February 1977.
Wrangham Collection, no.1336, with original collector's label.
Wrangham Collection, no.1336, with original collector's label.
Literature
E. A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists, Harehope, Northumberland, Harehope Publications, 1995, p.209, Reisai (second from right).
Brought to you by
Zheng Ma
Head of Department, Senior Specialist