Lot 145 AN INLAID SHIBUICHI FOUR-CASE SAYA (SHEATH) INRO JAPAN, EDO PERIOD (EARLY-MID 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED HARUAKI (HOGEN HARUAKI; 1787-1859)

AN INLAID SHIBUICHI FOUR-CASE SAYA (SHEATH) INRO JAPAN, EDO PERIOD (EARLY-MID 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED HARUAKI (HOGEN HARUAKI; 1787-1859)

JAPAN, EDO PERIOD (EARLY-MID 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED HARUAKI (HOGEN HARUAKI; 1787-1859)

GBP 1,500

英鎊 1,500 – 英鎊 2,000

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細節: AN INLAID <i>SHIBUICHI</i> FOUR-CASE <i>SAYA</i> (SHEATH) INRO
JAPAN, EDO PERIOD (EARLY-MID 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED <i>HARUAKI</i> (HOGEN HARUAKI; 1787-1859)
The vertical rectangular body with the <i>saya</i> formed of two parts, each side of <i>shibuichi ishime</i>, decorated in high relief of gold, bronze, silver, copper and <i>shakudo </i>with an all-over design of swallows, butterflies and floral roundels of the four seasons including lilies, plum, peony and wisteria scattered over the surface, the four-case <i>inro</i> within of undecorated silver, signed on the base with chiselled characters <i>Haruaki/Shunmei, </i>with a silver tubular <i>ojime</i> inlaid in high relief of gilt and silver with a sprig of peony, signed with a seal (undeciphered).
3 3⁄8 in. (8.5 cm.) high

來源: Michael Tomkinson Collection, no.1069, with original collector's label.
M. T. Hindson Collection, purchased at Sotheby's London, 1969.
Wrangham collection, no.960, 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.43, cat. no. 102 (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.