Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
28 June 1920
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/478
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    86 87 88 89 ‘90 91 92 93 94 11 Two Inro: Three cases, black togidashi, one with diagonal design of flying chidori on one side and sails of boats and waves on the other, inlaid aogai ; the other, with junk poles rising above the tops of pine trees, signed Kajikawa, with bone cow and calf netsuké and glass ojime (2) Two Inro: Four cases, black hiramakiye, one with a dia- gonal band of floral and other ornament inlaid mother- o’-pearl ; the other with a cat beside a tswitate and a potted rock garden, inlaid aogai (2) Two Inro: Four cases, one with the three Lucky objects to dream of, Fuji, a Hawk, and Egg-plant fruits, on a Kinfundame ground ; the other with branches of plum- blossom and chryanthemums inlaid white and red on a clouded Kinfundame ground (2) Two Inro: Four cases, one with Daruma on one side and a fly switch and staff on the other, on a nashaji ground ; the other with a potted tree and spray of swisen in raised brown on a black ground (2) Two Inro; Four cases, one with cranes inlaid mother-o’- pearl and pewter; the other with The Enforced Pilgrimage to Zenk6ji, inlaid aogat (2) A Box Inro: One case with bamboo lid with leaves and nuts of Shii-no-mi (Quercus cuspidata) and two ants, signed Zeshin ; and another of ebony with deer-horn lid perforated with ant borings and bronze ants (2) Sakazuki of irregular shape, red lacquer fashioned as the hollow formed in a piece of tree trunk Kako 6804-2. Sakazuki, large size, red inside, gold outside, with a dragon and storm cloud, signed Yoyosai, the design taken from one by Tanyu; and another, smaller, red, a great crowd visiting at the Nio mon of a temple on a féte day, and on the back a mask of Okame and a fan, signed Hakuosai (2) Two Combs, nashiji with kiku flowers ; and a turned wood jar and cover with lacquer flowers and a seated muswme on the sides (4) TSUBA. Iron: One Mokko, a dragon in gold passing through a wave, sealed M otohira } and one round, a Sage seated by and resting on a reclining horse, viewing a dragon in the sky (2) q\ vA. ‘ an | re Ff 2 ' } ~fF yr = i ~ / be iZ a) ] / ~
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