Sales catalogue: Christies

Date:
4-11 August 1915
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/4/64
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Christies. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ong WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1915, AT ONE 0’CLOCK PRECISELY. JAPANESE OBJECTS OF ART. 692 An inro, with the Corean lion and peonies in raised gold; an inro, with Sages in a bamboo grove in gold and mother- o'-pearl ; an inro, with golden pheasants inlaid in mother- o’-pearl and ivory; and an inro, with children, monkey and dogs 693 An inro, monkeys and fir-trees, in black and gold togidashi ; an inro, of natural wood, with bamboo fittings, netsuké attached ; and an inro, of Samado work, storm-dragons in mother-o’-pear! 694 A gold lacquer box and cover, formed as a biwa; a circular nashiji box, with prunus in mother-o’-pearl ; a box, formed of a sea-urchin, gold lacquer interior; two incised red saké cups; and two combs 695 A gold lacquer box, in two divisions, formed as a travelling- basket; a flat circular box and cover, with a Chinese landscape in raised gold ; a gold lacquer box, shaped as a carp; a gold lacquer box, shaped as a shell; and a mirror-shaped plaque, of gold lacquer, with figures in the Chinese taste
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