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PROPERTY FROM A PRINCELY COLLECTION
18 A FINE THREE-CASE INRO

MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED ZESHIN (SHIBATA ZESHIN; 1807-
1891)
Decorated in polychrome lacquer hiramaki-e
and takamaki-e, with a Japanese style
reception room accompanied with hanging
scroll, insense burner and hanging flower
flower vase, the reverse with persimmons
and fruits in a basket, interior with nashiji,
incised signature on base; with a hako-netsuke
decorated with chrythathemum, signed Zeshin
on base
2¬ in. (6.7 cm.) high

$20,000-30,000

PROVENANCE:
Christie's London, 10 November 2010, Lot 398
Eskenazi Ltd., London, 1990
Charles A. Greenfield Collection
W.W. Winkworth (1897-1991)

EXHIBITED:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The MET), New York,
Japanese Lacquer, 1600-1900: Selections from the Charles
A. Greenfield Collection, 1980
Japan House Gallery, New York, The Magnificent
Three: Lacquer, Netsuke and Tsuba, Selections from the
Collection of Charles A. Greenfield, 1972

LITERATURE:
Eskenazi Ltd., The Charles A. Greenfield Collection of
Japanese Lacquer, (London: Eskenazi, 1990), no. 81, p.
163.
Andrew J. Pekarik, Japanese Lacquer, 1600-1900:
Selections from the Charles A. Greenfield Collection, exh.
cat., (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980),
fig. 156.
H. P. Stern, The Magnificent Three: Lacquer, Netsuke
and Tsuba, Selections from the Collection of Charles A.
Greenfield (New York: Japan Society, 1972), no. 162 (Inro).