Japanese Works of Art - 13th November 2025
Lot 823
THREE JAPANESE LACQUER INRŌ
Estimate £600 - £1,000 | Hammer £2413
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Description
THREE JAPANESE LACQUER INRŌ
MEIJI ERA, 19TH CENTURY
All three decorated with cranes or egrets, the first a three-case inrō; the second also with three cases and attached to two ojime, one in bone, the other in metal, signed Shunshō; the third with a tsuishu lacquer netsuke and a small silk pouch; the last two with signatures underneath reading Kajikawa saku above a red pot seal Ei. (3)
Provenance: The Tomkinson Family Collection. The inrō with bone ojime purchased from Christie’s London, ‘The Carlo Monzino Collection of netsuke, inro and lacquer’, 21st June 1995, lot 408.