A JAPANESE THREE-CASE GOLD LACQUER INRŌ

£3,000 - £4,000

A JAPANESE THREE-CASE GOLD LACQUER INRŌ
EDO PERIOD, 18TH CENTURY

Decorated with chickens, one side with a cock emerging from a basket of brushwood, signed lower left corner Jōka with kao and Kanoko below; the reverse with a hen and two small chicks nestling in a winnowing basket; all rendered in gold lacquer takamakie on a fundame ground, with details in the feathers cleverly picked out in aogai (mother of pearl inlays), 6.2cm.

Provenance: by repute, formerly in the collection of Edward A. Wrangham OBE (1928-2009).