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EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)
Details
A Five-Case Lacquer Inro
Edo period (19th century)
Of oval section lacquered in iroe takamaki-e with a Noh actor holding a fan and wearing a mask of applied metal patinated with a shakudo finish, the surrounding area gyobu nashiji on a black lacquer ground, the reverse with a single pine tree enclosed by a rope fence, the interiors decorated in nashiji; fitted with a soft-metal ojime cast with silver grape vines on a shibuichi ground and a hako netsuke decorated in nashiji and with an applied gilt-metal dancer with a mask finished in shakudo
3½in. (8.9cm.) long
Edo period (19th century)
Of oval section lacquered in iroe takamaki-e with a Noh actor holding a fan and wearing a mask of applied metal patinated with a shakudo finish, the surrounding area gyobu nashiji on a black lacquer ground, the reverse with a single pine tree enclosed by a rope fence, the interiors decorated in nashiji; fitted with a soft-metal ojime cast with silver grape vines on a shibuichi ground and a hako netsuke decorated in nashiji and with an applied gilt-metal dancer with a mask finished in shakudo
3½in. (8.9cm.) long
Provenance
Rogers Collection, sold Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, 10 January, 1947, lot 34
Charles A. Greenfield
Charles A. Greenfield