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A FINE LACQUER TOBACCO POUCH AND NETSUKE
MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY), NETSUKE SIGNED TAISHIN
(IKEDA TAISHIN; 1825-1903)
The dark ishime (rough stone finish) body, the hinged top decorated
in gold and polychrome lacquers with a dragonfly and a click beetle,
a shibuichi clasp of snail applied with a mother-of-pearl, the bamboo
netsuke decorated with an egg plant; siganture in gold lacquer on base
4¡ x 3 in. (11.1 x 7.6 cm.)

$12,000-18,000

Ikeda Taishin was born in Edo and became Shibata Zeshin’s first
lacquer apprentice, aged eleven in 1835. He became an independent
artist around 1870, approximately 25 years later. Together with
Kawanobe Itcho (Genjiro; 1830-1910), Taishin was appointed an
Artist to the Imperial Household (Teishitsu gigeiin) in 1896.