Project Description
Four case Yamimakie Inro with Ink Cakes by Kōenshi Ōsai (active circa 1800)
The bottom case deeper than on most inro, the body decorated with four Chinese ink-cakes and a leaf in takamakie, one of the cakes octagonal with a minogame design from the end of the 16th century by Fang Shi Mopu which appears on inro by Ritsuo
Inscribed and signed kōenshi ōsai utsusu with kaō
10.8 cm
Shibuichi and copper spherical ojime
Provenance:
Park Bernet, New York, 24th January 1975, lot 224
Sotheby’s New York, 21st March 2000, lot 68
Jacques Carré
Literature:
G. Lazarnick, ‘The Signature Book’, p. 311
G. Lazarnick, ‘Netsuke & Inro Artists …’, vol.II, p. 855, one sigde and the inscription illustrated
Netsuke Kenkyukai, 14/3, no. 3
I have previously sold a beautiful yatate by the same lacquerer, who was reputedly a pupil of Koma Kansai I
MR3460
