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TOSHI (IIZUKA TOYO III, ACTIVE
18TH/19TH CENTURY)
A two-case lacquer inro
Edo period (1615-1868), 18th/19th century
The small inro bearing a black-lacquer
ground sprinkled with hirameand decorated
with a horse tethered to an elaborate hitching
post in iro-e takamaki-e, the hitching post
inscribed Go Mofu no hitsu i(Inspired after
the brush of Meng-fu) and signed Toshi and
with a kao
3in (7.7cm) high
$2,000-3,000

Provenance
E. A. Wrangham Collection, sold Bonhams,
London, The Wrangham Collection of
Japanese Art, Part III, May 15, 2012, lot 284
Wrangham Collection, no.2121
Purchased from Trudel Klefisch, Cologne, 1997

The Yuan-dynasty painter Zhao Mengfu
(1254-1322) specialized in paintings of horses.

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