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A METAL-INLAID GOLD-LACQUER FOUR-CASE INRO A GOLD-LACQUER FIVE-CASE INRO
By Kajikawa Bunryusai, Meiji era (1868-1912), By a member of the Kajikawa family, Edo period (1615-1868)
late 19th/early 20th century or Meiji era (1868-1912), mid/late 19th century
The rounded rectangular lustrous kinji body decorated in gold The rounded rectangular body decorated in gold takamaki-e,
hiramaki-e, kirikane, takamaki-e and e-nashiji with a woodsman offering hiramaki-e and kirikane with a continuous autumnal rural landscape
a stick of dango (sweet dumplings) to a beauty passing beside a large scene, the lower foreground depicting a row of sheaves of rice hanging
flowering cherry tree during the hanami (cherry-blossom-viewing) out to dry in front of thatched dwellings on one side and a straw
season, the design continuing over the reverse, the figures worked kakashi (scarecrow) standing in a rice field beside a meandering stream
in chiselled high relief of gold, silver, shakudo and bronze, the interior on the river with undulating hills in the background on the other,
of rich nashiji, the base signed in gold lacquer Kajikawa Bunryusai the interior of nashiji, signed Kajikawa saku with a red-lacquer
saku; with a two-part gold-lacquer manju netsuke embellished in pot-shaped seal; with a walnut netsuke and a glass ojime.
gold lacquer relief with a recumbent deer among autumnal plants and 9cm (3½in) high.
grasses, the reverse signed in a shell-inlaid reserve Shibayama;
with a green glass ojime. £1,000 - 1,500
10.8cm (4¼in) high. JPY140,000 - 210,000
US$1,200 - 1,900
£3,500 - 4,000
JPY480,000 - 550,000
US$4,300 - 5,000
34 | BONHAMS For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.
