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The Edward Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art
A GOLD LACQUER FIVE-CASE INRO
JAPAN, EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY), SIGNED KANSHOSAI WITH CURSIVE MONOGRAM (KAO) (KANSHOSAI TOYO LINEAGE)
Details
A GOLD LACQUER FIVE-CASE INRO
JAPAN, EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY), SIGNED KANSHOSAI WITH CURSIVE MONOGRAM (KAO) (KANSHOSAI TOYO LINEAGE)
The rounded rectangular body with a gold kinji ground, lacquered in gold and silver togidashi maki-e with an elephant standing on one side with a puzzled expression, surrounded by a group of five blindmen touching different parts of its body, the blindmen's discarded canes and geta (traditional elevated wood clogs) strewn on the ground and lying at the feet of a seated attendant, tall palm trees depicted in sumi-e on the reverse, the interior of rich nashiji, signed on the base in gold hiramaki-e Kanshosai with a kao; with a pale brown stone ojime.
3 ½ in. (9 cm.) high
JAPAN, EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY), SIGNED KANSHOSAI WITH CURSIVE MONOGRAM (KAO) (KANSHOSAI TOYO LINEAGE)
The rounded rectangular body with a gold kinji ground, lacquered in gold and silver togidashi maki-e with an elephant standing on one side with a puzzled expression, surrounded by a group of five blindmen touching different parts of its body, the blindmen's discarded canes and geta (traditional elevated wood clogs) strewn on the ground and lying at the feet of a seated attendant, tall palm trees depicted in sumi-e on the reverse, the interior of rich nashiji, signed on the base in gold hiramaki-e Kanshosai with a kao; with a pale brown stone ojime.
3 ½ in. (9 cm.) high
来源
G. Fujishiro Collection, sold at Sotheby's London, 12 April, 1965.
Wrangham Collection, no.492, with original collector's label.
Wrangham Collection, no.492, with original collector's label.
Literature
INRO: An exhibition of Japanese Inro from the collection of E.A. Wrangham, exhibition catalogue, Oxford, 1972, p.26, cat. no. 34 (ill.)
Exhibited
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, INRO: An exhibition of Japanese Inro from the collection of E.A. Wrangham, 9 October - 4 November 1972.
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Zheng Ma
Head of Department, Senior Specialist
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