Project Description
Four-case Brown Lacquer Inro with a Stag by Shiomi Masanari
Decorated in low relief takamakie with a running stag and windswept suzuki grass on the slope of a mountain. The fur of the deer is remarkably well rendered by textures in the gold lacquer
Signed: Shiomi Masanari. 18th century
7 cm
Provenance:
J.W. Hawkshaw collection, no. 142 (labels inside and out)
Information:
Compare with a similar inro by the artist in the W.L. Behrens collection (Joly, no. 612, illustrated on pl. XXXIII)
MR3159
