Sale 5565
London, South Kensington
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2 October 2005
Price realised
GBP 2,880
Estimate
A two-case black ground inro with nashiji, style of Yamamoto Shunso, 19th Century decorated in polychrome togidashi with a travellers and a monkey in a ferry on choppy waters, the scene on both sides - 2 7/8in. (7.5cm.) high.
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A similar example is illustrated in Eskenazi Limited, The Charles A. Greenfield Collection of Japanese Lacquer (London, 1990), no. 104.
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