Lot 136 A GOLD LACQUER FIVE-CASE INRO JAPAN, EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY), SIGNED KANSHOSAI WITH CURSIVE MONOGRAM (KAO) (KANSHOSAI TOYO LINEAGE)

A GOLD LACQUER FIVE-CASE INRO JAPAN, EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY), SIGNED KANSHOSAI WITH CURSIVE MONOGRAM (KAO) (KANSHOSAI TOYO LINEAGE)

JAPAN, EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY), SIGNED KANSHOSAI WITH CURSIVE MONOGRAM (KAO) (KANSHOSAI TOYO LINEAGE)

GBP 4,000

英鎊 4,000 – 英鎊 6,000

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細節: A GOLD LACQUER FIVE-CASE INRO
JAPAN, EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY), SIGNED <i>KANSHOSAI </i>WITH CURSIVE MONOGRAM (<i>KAO</i>) (KANSHOSAI TOYO LINEAGE)
The rounded rectangular body with a gold <i>kinji</i> ground, lacquered in gold and silver <i>togidashi maki-e</i> with an elephant standing on one side with a puzzled expression, surrounded by a group of five blindmen touching different parts of its body, the blindmen's discarded canes and <i>geta</i> (traditional elevated wood clogs) strewn on the ground and lying at the feet of a seated attendant, tall palm trees depicted in <i>sumi-e</i> on the reverse, the interior of rich <i>nashiji</i>, signed on the base in gold <i>hiramaki-e Kanshosai</i> with a <i>kao</i>; with a pale brown stone <i>ojime</i>.
3 ½ in. (9 cm.) high

來源: G. Fujishiro Collection, sold at Sotheby's London, 12 April, 1965.
Wrangham Collection, no.492, 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.26, cat. no. 34 (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.