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Lot 121 Dα

A four-case inrô. Mid-19th century

Auction 1146 - overview Cologne
06.12.2019, 14:00 - Japan, India/South-East Asia
Estimate: 4.000 € - 5.000 €
Result: 4.464 € (incl. premium)
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A four-case inrô. Mid-19th century

Displaying an Okina dancer inlaid in rôgin, shakudô, silver and gold on one side, and a mask box and a fan on the other side, on a roiro ground with nashiji and clouds and pine saplings in gold takamaki-e and hiramaki-e and kirikane, at the top and bottom kinji. Nashiji and fundame to the inside. Signed in maki-e Koma Yasunori kore saku and Noriyuki on an inlaid gold tablet. Kinji ojime. A boxwood netsuke of a manzai dancer. 19th century. Small chip.
Height 9.2 cm; width 5.8 cm

Koma Yasunori is a little known master of the Koma family. Noriyuki II lived from 1771 to 1852 in Edo.

Provenance

Collection Lady Dodds
Sotheby's, London, 15.2.1969, lot 147
Collection J. M. A. J. Dawson
Eskenazi, London, 1997
Christie's, London, 16.6.1999, lot 213
Nagel, Stuttgart, 21.5.2002, lot 1061
Property of a German lady

Literature

Published in: Eskenazi, Japanese netsuke and inrô from private collections, London 1975, no. 22; Eskenazi, Japanese netsuke, ojime, and inrô from the Dawson collection, London 1997, no. 134

Exhibitions

Eskenazi, London, 1975 and 1997