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 Read moreTHE SOAME JENYNS COLLECTION OF JAPANESE AND CHINESE ART
A JAPANESE FOUR-CASE LACQUER INRO WITH COINS

EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

    Price Realised GBP 2,125
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    GBP 1,000 - GBP 1,500
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    A JAPANESE FOUR-CASE LACQUER INRO WITH COINS

    EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

    Price Realised GBP 2,125
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    Price Realised GBP 2,125
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    Details
    Decorated in gold, silver and brown takamaki-e and mother-of-pearl inlays on a roiro lacquer ground with imitation Japanese and Chinese coins suspended from chains, nashiji interiors and risers, gold rims
    2¾ in. (7 cm.) high


    Provenance
    Collection of the late Soame Jenyns (1904-1976), then by descent within the family.
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    For a suzuribako similarly decorated with old coins, see James C. Y. Watt, East Asian Lacquer: The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, (New York, 1991), cat. no. 140, p. 275.
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