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KOMA YASUTOMI LINEAGE
A Gold-Lacquer Four-Case Inro
Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century
The broad rectangular sparsely sprinkled
hirame body decorated in gold and slight-
coloured takamaki-e with the youthful
Kikujido seated and holding sprays of two
chrysanthemum blossoms whilst other buds
and foliage drift around him, the foliage
continuing on the reverse, with details inlaid in
shell, the interior of matt gold, signed in gold 70
lacquer Koma Yasutomi saku.
9cm (3½in) high.
£3,000 - 5,000
JPY580,000 - 970,000
US$3,900 - 6,500

Provenance:
Christie’s, London, 16 June 1992, lot 296.
Published and Illustrated:
Sydney Moss Ltd., Odd Men Out,
London, 1998, no.47.
Sydney Moss Ltd., Lac Lacquer Lacquest,
London, 2014, pp.176-177, no.58.

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A BLACK-LACQUER SLENDER TALL
SEVEN-CASE INRO
Edo period (1615-1868),
probably 19th century
The slender tall rounded rectangular body
with a roiro-nuri ground decorated in gold and
red hiramaki-e with a monkey swinging from
a peach tree with one hand and holding his
companion with the other, with highlighted
details embellished in kirikane, the interior of
red lacquer, unsigned; with a silver and bronze
bead ojime inlaid on one side with a daikon
and a wood netsuke in the form of a cluster
of biwa fruits, unsigned.
13cm (5 1/16in) high.
£2,500 - 3,500
JPY490,000 - 680,000
US$3,300 - 4,600

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