Project Description

3-case Wood Inro, by Sukeyuki

The cases well fitting, one side carved with a cockerel and two chicks, three chicks on the other.  The eyes are all inlays of dark horn

Signed on one side: Hida [in katakana] Sukeyuki. Hida Takayama. Circa 1900

8cm

Provenance:

Purchased from Trudel Klefisch, Cologne by E.A. Wrangham in 1978, no. 1429 in his collection

​Bonhams London, ​Wrangham Collection Part III, Lot 357

Literature:

E.A. Wrangham, The Index of Inrō Artists,  p. 277, the signature illustrated

MR3856