**SOLD** Four case Yamimakie Inro with Ink Cakes by Kōenshi Ōsai (active circa 1800)

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 from the Fang Shi Mopu which appears on an inro and kogo 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

Jacques Carré

Literature:

G. Lazarnick, The Signature Book, p. 311
G. Lazarnick, Netsuke & Inro Artists …, vol.II, p. 855, one side and the inscription illustrated
Heinz Kress, ​Inro Motifs, Part II, in Netsuke Kenkyukai, 14/3 (1994), p. 34, no. 23, illustrated below images of the ink cake with minogame in the Fang Shi Mopu and on a Ritsuo kogo in the Wrangham collection

I have previously sold a beautiful yatate by the same lacquerer, who was reputedly a pupil of Koma Kansai I

MR3460

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