Lot details Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912) Of rectangular form with recessed gold fundame edges, supported on a shaped foot lacquered in gold fundame, the exterior bearing a nashiji ground richly decorated in gold and colored takamaki-e and hiramaki-e with inlays of bone to depict various inro and netsuke as well as plain globular ojime. The right door with an inro showing Jurojin reading a scroll beside a deer, with a paddle-shaped netsuke of an actor wearing an Okina mask and holding a fan. The left door with an inro depicting a noble lady seated on a terrace and looking out toward a mountain landscape under thick clouds and a full moon, with a figural netsuke of an actor wearing an Okame mask and holding a fan. The right side with an inro of a lady and boy in a garden by a meandering stream, with a netsuke of a sambaso dancer. The left side with an inro of a cockerel perched on a war drum, with a netsuke of Fukurokuju. The top with an inro of a demoness and a swordsmith, with a netsuke of Ebisu, as well as an inro depicting a large ship, with a netsuke of a duck. The doors open to reveal four drawers with silver handles, each of nashiji with gold fundame edges and finely decorated in gold hiramaki-e with floral sprays including prunus, iris, and bellflower, the interiors of the doors with a roiro-mura-nashiji ground decorated in gold and silver hiramaki-e with autumnal flowers including aster, bellflower, and bush clover. The silver fittings comprise shaped handles to the sides incised with foliate designs, door hinges chased and incised with foliate designs against a ring-punched ground, and similarly crafted door handles with a shaped hinge lock. SIZE 24.3 x 29 x 23.3 cm Condition: Very good condition with minor wear, few scattered minuscule losses to lacquer. Presents beautifully. Provenance: Ex-collection Shep Brozman, New York. Auction comparison: Compare a related lacquer inro-dansu decorated with tsuba, dated second half of the 19th century, at Christie’s London, Netsuke & Lacquer from the Japanese Department of Eskenazi, 17 November 1999, London, lot 23 (sold for 25,300 GBP).
Lot details Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912) Of rectangular form with recessed gold fundame edges, supported on a shaped foot lacquered in gold fundame, the exterior bearing a nashiji ground richly decorated in gold and colored takamaki-e and hiramaki-e with inlays of bone to depict various inro and netsuke as well as plain globular ojime. The right door with an inro showing Jurojin reading a scroll beside a deer, with a paddle-shaped netsuke of an actor wearing an Okina mask and holding a fan. The left door with an inro depicting a noble lady seated on a terrace and looking out toward a mountain landscape under thick clouds and a full moon, with a figural netsuke of an actor wearing an Okame mask and holding a fan. The right side with an inro of a lady and boy in a garden by a meandering stream, with a netsuke of a sambaso dancer. The left side with an inro of a cockerel perched on a war drum, with a netsuke of Fukurokuju. The top with an inro of a demoness and a swordsmith, with a netsuke of Ebisu, as well as an inro depicting a large ship, with a netsuke of a duck. The doors open to reveal four drawers with silver handles, each of nashiji with gold fundame edges and finely decorated in gold hiramaki-e with floral sprays including prunus, iris, and bellflower, the interiors of the doors with a roiro-mura-nashiji ground decorated in gold and silver hiramaki-e with autumnal flowers including aster, bellflower, and bush clover. The silver fittings comprise shaped handles to the sides incised with foliate designs, door hinges chased and incised with foliate designs against a ring-punched ground, and similarly crafted door handles with a shaped hinge lock. SIZE 24.3 x 29 x 23.3 cm Condition: Very good condition with minor wear, few scattered minuscule losses to lacquer. Presents beautifully. Provenance: Ex-collection Shep Brozman, New York. Auction comparison: Compare a related lacquer inro-dansu decorated with tsuba, dated second half of the 19th century, at Christie’s London, Netsuke & Lacquer from the Japanese Department of Eskenazi, 17 November 1999, London, lot 23 (sold for 25,300 GBP).
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