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582
CHINKEI (ACTIVE 19TH CENTURY)
A four-case lacquer inro
Edo period (1615-1868), early 19th century
The dark brown ground decorated with
combed waves in black lacquer and various
seashells in painted ceramic inlays, and gold-
lacquer waterweeds, the interiors fundame
with silver liners and each applied with silver
tablets for inscriptions, signed on a pottery
tablet Chinkei
3in (7.7cm) high

$1,200 - 1,800
Provenance
E. A. Wrangham Collection, sold, Bonhams,
London, The Edward Wrangham Collection of
Japanese Art, Part II, May 10, 2011, lot 341
Arthur Kay Collection, no.0587
Wrangham Collection, no.1360, purchased
from Nihon Token, London, 1977

Published
E.A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists,
Harehope, Northumberland, 1995, p.37,
582 Chinkei, top left

583
STYLE OF OGAWA HARITSU (1663-1747)
An inlaid wood suzuribako (writing box)
Edo period (1615-1868), 18th century
Rectangular, with a removable writing box
with inkstone and circular ceramic water
dropper decorated with a futatsudomoe
(double whorl), all set into the upper
compartment, the deeper compartment
below fitted with two drawers, decorated
overall in inlays of gold and black lacquer,
tsuishu (carved red lacquer), glazed ceramic,
mother-of-pearl and silver, with a wine
pot and an ink cake on the top surface
and on the sides with a butterfly above
chrysanthemums, and a circular mirror with
a landscape and pine trees, the drawers
decorated with seashells and seaweed,
the brass hardware decorated with enamel
inlays, the interiors roiro-nuri sealed Kan
29 x 19.5 x 20.5cm
$5,000 - 7,000

Provenance
J. Prieur Collection, no. 302B
Previously sold, Christie’s, London,
November, 20XX, lot 27

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