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YAMAGUCHI SHOJOSAI (1893-1978) A RARE BLUE-LACQUER FOUR-CASE INRO
A four-case lacquer inro Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century
Taisho (1912-1926) or Showa (1926-1989) era, 20th century Of lenticular section and decorated with two playful puppies in gold
The red ground dusted with gold powder and decorated with a gold- and silver hiramaki-e against a glossy blue ground, inscribed Okyo
lacquer panel of a young woman dreaming of lovemaking, in gold utsutsu (After Maruyama Okyo (1733-1795), the interiors
and colored takamaki-e, the reverse with a similar panel illustrating gold and silver nashiji with fundame edges; fitted with a silver
her erotic dream, based on a shunga design by the p[rint artsit Suzuki bead ojimedecorated with flowers in gold, copper and shakudo,
Harunobu (died 1770), the interior cases nashiji, signed Harunobu ga, signed Chikanori, and a lacquered wood netsuke of a puppy
Rosho utsusu (By Rosho, copied from Harunobu) decorated with chrysanthemums
4in (10.2cm) high 2 3/4in (7cm) high
$3,000 - 4,000 $10,000 - 15,000

Provenance Provenance
E. A Wrangham Collection, sold, Bonhams, London, The Edward David and Sandy Swedlow Collection, sold, these Rooms, March 25,
Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art, Part I, November 9, 2010, 2010, lot 2005
lot 321
Wrangham Collection, no.505, purchased at Sotheby’s, London,
1965

Exhibited
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1972, no.58

Published
The Netsuke Kenkyukai Study Journal, vol.7, no.2, p.18, figs.14a and
14b
E.A.Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists, Harehope, Northumberland,
1995, p.249, Shojosai, bottom row, second from left

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