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498 A three-case silver-plated inrô.
Late 19th century, possibly after 1891

Displaying a young mother weaving a bamboo
courtain (sudare) placed over a frame and a young
boy with a tengu mask sitting in front of it and
frightening a cat jumping up the frame, on the
reverse hibiscus, susuki and a butterfly in engraving.
Gilding to the inside. Small metal ojime with a
prunus branch and flying bird and a kagamibuta
with a disc of white metal engraved with a landscape
and an imitation carved lacquer bowl.
Height 7.7 cm; width 5.5 cm

Provenance
Private collection, Paris
€ 1.000 – 1.200

The design is featured in the
illustrated book Shinko chôkoku
zusen, 1891, p. 3a, there entitled
„sudare ami“ (weaving a bamboo
courtain).
498

499 A fine bronze and silver miniature
writing set (yatate).
2nd half 19th century

The gourd with two leaves and one
flower, vines, tendrils and dewdrops of
silver, the largest leaf forming the hinged
cover of the ink container, the double
gourd’s tip with a screw stopper. The
thickest tendril forming the himotôshi.
One tendril missing.
Length 8.7 cm

Provenance
Private collection, Rhineland
Literature
Compare a similar piece in: Patrizia
Jirka-Schmitz, Netsuke, Gürtelschmuck
aus Japan, Die Sammlung Trumpf,
Stuttgart 2000, cat. no. 826, p. 371, and
MCI, New York 1986, p. 1035
€ 500 – 600 499

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