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A GOLD-LACQUER AND PEWTER-INLAID SUZURIBAKO AND A GOLD LACQUER FOUR-CASE INRO
COVER Edo period
Style of Ogata Korin (1658-1716), Edo period, late 18th/early 19th Decorated in hiramaki-e with a fundame and nashiji ground, depicting
century a group of travellers in a ferry boat, one tending a monkey atop a pole,
The writing box with overhanging lid of shaped square form, decorated a figure at the prow holding the reins of a rearing horse on the bank,
to the exterior in gold lacquer with blades of grass and willowy flowers before distant mountains and stylised clouds, attached metal ojime
in front of a rising full moon against a deep black ground, the interior and ivory netsuke of a warrior on horseback trampling another figure,
of the lid with a hare against a red and gold ground, signed Seisei the inro signed Kajikawa saku with a red-lacquer pot-shaped seal
Korin; the interior of the box with fitted ink stone and white metal water The inro 9cm (3.1/2in) long.
dropper.
22.2cm (8 3/4in) x 19.5cm (7 5/8in) (2). £800 - 1,200
CNY7,100 - 11,000
£2,000 - 3,000 HK$8,800 - 13,000
CNY18,000 - 27,000
HK$22,000 - 33,000 The Property of a Lady

Provenance
Christie’s London, Fine Japanese Swords, Tsuba, Inro and Netsuke,
7 October 1969, Lot 131.

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