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A LACQUER KOGO [INCENSE BOX] A LACQUER KOGO [INCENSE BOX]
EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY) EDO PERIOD (18TH-19TH CENTURY)
鴛蒔絵香合 竹蒔絵香合
江戸時代（19世紀） 江戸時代（18-19世紀）
The rectangular box with indented corners and fush-ftting cover, decorated in The square box with rounded corners with a fush-ftting domed cover, decorated
gold, silver and red togidashi and sparse nashiji on a roiro-nuri ground with a pair of in gold togidashi with bamboo leaves on a sprinkled nashiji ground, the sides with
mandarin ducks, a symbol of conjugal fdelity, among reeds, nashiji interior, stems of bamboo in gold hiramaki-e and cut gold foil, nashiji interior, silver rims
fundame rims
8cm. wide
9.7cm. long
£2,500-3,000 $4,300-5,100
£2,000-2,500 $3,400-4,300 €3,100-3,700
€2,500-3,100
PROVENANCE:
Eskenazi Ltd., London.
EXHIBITED:
Japanese Netsuke, Inro and Lacquer-ware, Eskenazi, Foxglove House, London,
12 – 23 December 1986
PUBLISHED:
Eskenazi Ltd., Japanese Netsuke, Inro and Lacquer-ware, (London, 1986), cat. no. 74
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