EDO PERIOD (17TH-18TH CENTURY)

Name: TWO JAPANESE LACQUER INRO
Brand: EDO PERIOD (17TH-18TH CENTURY)
Price: 1400.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 1,750

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TWO JAPANESE LACQUER INRO

EDO PERIOD (17TH-18TH CENTURY)

Price Realised GBP 1,750

Comprising a three-case inro decorated in gold and black hiramaki-e and takamaki-e and inlaid in mother-of-pearl on a nashiji ground with imitation Chinese and Japanese coins, black lacquer interiors and risers; and a circular two-case inro decorated in gold, silver and metal hiramaki-e and takamaki-e on a nashiji and brown lacquer ground with imitation Chinese and Japanese coins, and inlaid with coins, red lacquer interiors and risers, fundame rims
The largest, 3½ in. (8.8 cm.) diam.

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.