A Three Case Boxwood Inro

EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

細節
A Three Case Boxwood Inro
Edo Period (19th Century)
Of tapering form carved in high relief with Shohaku facing towards the rear, as he sits on an ox with gilded horns, riding on the shore of a lake, beside a pine, the reverse with a Chinese poem, the characters carved in relief, the sides of the inro carved in shishiaibori with Chinese-style formal decoration
3.7/8 x 1.11/16 [tapering to 16] x 1¼in. (9.7 x 4.3 [tapering to 4cm.] x 3.2cm.)
來源
George and Verna Lazarnick Collection
出版
See Lazarnick, George, Netsuke and Inro Artists, How To Read Their Signatures and The Collection of George and Verna Lazarnick - Selected Pieces, p. 76

拍品專文

The subject of this piece echoes Shan Kien, one of the seven wise men of the Eastern Tsin Dynasty of China.