Project Description
Four-case Lacquer Inro with a Ho-o Bird (Phoenix) on a Kiri Branch
Decorated over a roiro-mura-nashiji ground suggestive of falling snow with the main features in gold takamakie and gold foil, with some kirigane. The rendition of the plumage of the bird is remarkable
Signed: Hideteru with kaō. Circa 1800
Height 8cm
Provenance:
Anonymous sale, Phillips London, 1989, where purchased by E.A. Wrangham (no. 1933), offered in his first sale, Bonhams London, 9th November 2010, lot 324
MR4091
