JAPANESE AND KOREAN ART 23 march 2022

693
KAJIKAWA LINEAGE
A gold lacquer four-case inro
Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century
Of rounded square profile with applied cord-runners,
decorated in colored hiramaki-e and togidashi
maki-e with nashiji on a ground of hirame depicting
a woman dressed in a yukata with a male attendant
catching fireflies at night, signed Kajikawa saku
(signed Kajikawa); coral bead ojime
3 1/4in (8.2cm) high
$4,000 - 5,000
Provenance
Sydney L. Moss, Ltd., London, May 2012
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694
IIZUKA TOYO LINEAGE
A gold lacquer five-case inro
Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century
Of rounded rectangular profile with applied cordrunners,
decorated in high-relief red and black
takamaki-e with an octopus against a background of
gold and aokin lacquer with accents of gold kirigane
depicting a stormy sea and rocks, the reverse with a
hawk, signed Iizuka Toyo; netsuke wood, carved as
an octopus
3 3/4in (9.5cm) high
$4,000 - 6,000
Provenance
Kyoto Gallery, Brussels, June 2010
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