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A FINE TSUISHU [CARVED RED LACQUER] KOGO
[INCENSE BOX]
SIGNED HOKEI TO [CARVED BY HOKEI (MATSUKI HOKEI)], EDO PERIOD
(19TH CENTURY)
千鳥図堆朱貝形香合
銘 豊慶刀 (松木豊慶) 江戸時代（19世紀）
In the form of a clam shell, the exterior magnifcently carved in high and low relief
through the thick layers of red lacquer with a fock of chidori [plovers] on a carved
diaper ground, nashiji interior, the interior of the footrim with mura-nashiji,
fundame rims
10cm. wide
£8,000-10,000 $14,000-17,000
€9,900-12,000

PROVENANCE:
Spink and Son Ltd., London
Eskenazi Ltd., London
Matsuki Hokei was the most distinguished exponent among the carvers of the
technique in carved red cinnabar lacquer known as tsuishu in the late Edo to
Meiji period.
For more about the artist, see George Lazarnick, Netsuke and Inro Artists and How
to Read Their Signatures (Honolulu, 1982), p. 481 and E.A. Wrangham, The Index of
Inro Artists, (Harehope, 1995), p. 79.

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