Lot 135 A GOLD LACQUER FOUR-CASE INRO JAPAN, EDO PERIOD (EARLY 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED YOYUSAI WITH CURSIVE MONOGRAM (KAO) (HARA YOYUSAI; 1772-1845)

A GOLD LACQUER FOUR-CASE INRO JAPAN, EDO PERIOD (EARLY 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED YOYUSAI WITH CURSIVE MONOGRAM (KAO) (HARA YOYUSAI; 1772-1845)

JAPAN, EDO PERIOD (EARLY 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED YOYUSAI WITH CURSIVE MONOGRAM (KAO) (HARA YOYUSAI; 1772-1845)

GBP 2,000

英鎊 2,000 – 英鎊 3,000

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細節: A GOLD LACQUER FOUR-CASE INRO
JAPAN, EDO PERIOD (EARLY 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED <i>YOYUSAI </i>WITH CURSIVE MONOGRAM (<i>KAO</i>) (HARA YOYUSAI; 1772-1845)
The small rounded rectangular body with a lustrous <i>roiro</i> ground strikingly lacquered in contrasting gold and <i>iro-e takamaki-e </i>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 <i>togidashi maki-e</i>, the design continuing over the surface of the top case, the cord runners of <i>shibuichi</i> and in the form of flutes alluding to the sounds of the forest at night, the interior of rich <i>gyobu</i> flakes, signed on the base in gold <i>hiramaki-e Yoyusai</i> with a <i>kao, </i>with a small stone <i>ojime.</i>
2 ½ in. (6.25 cm.) high

來源: Purchased at Lempertz, Cologne, 11 May, 1966.
Wrangham Collection, no.705, with original collector's label.
出版: <i>INRO: An exhibition of Japanese Inro from the collection of E.A. Wrangham, </i>exhibition catalogue, Oxford, 1972, p.27, cat. no. 39 (ill.)
展覽: Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, <i>INRO: An exhibition of Japanese Inro from the collection of E.A. Wrangham</i>, 9 October - 4 November 1972.