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Katalognummer: NE0320-252 YAMADA JOKASAI: A MAGNIFICENT AND LARGE LACQUERED THREE-CASE INRO By Yamada Jokasai, signed Jokasai Japan, 19th century, Edo period (1615-1868) Published: The Netsuke Kenkyukai Study Journal, Vol. 14, no. 2, Summer 1994, p. 31, fig. 20. Wrangham, E.A. (1995) The Index of Inro Artists, p. 99. Exhibited: The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1972, no. 21. An unusually large three-case inro with a roiro ground and sprinkled with dense green powder creating a unique and rare surface. The image on both sides is executed in gold lacquer and colored togidashi-e and depicts Gama Sennin holding his frog over his shoulder on one side, and Tekkai Sennin blowing out his soul on the other. The risers on the inside showing gold kinji and the inside with red matte lacquer. Signed JOKASAI 常嘉齋 on the underside in gold. HEIGHT 8.5 cm, LENGTH 8.5 cm Condition: Very good and original condition. Very few surface scratches and miniscule expected wear to lacquer. Provenance: Sir Trevor Lawrence collection, no. 576. F.A. Richards collection, purchased at Sotheby’s London, 1964. Wrangham collection, no. 339 (with old label inside). Then collection Drs. Edmund und Julie Lewis, New York. The images of Gama Sennin and Tekkai Sennin are taken from a Chinese painting by the fourteenth century artist Yen Hui, published in Inro fu, a book of designs for inro taken from Chinese originals, printed in 1717. Schätzpreis 估價: € 5.000 Startpreis 起拍價: € 2.500 -