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