Project Description
4-case gold lacquer inro with owl by Mochizuki Hanzan
With kinpun-fundame ground, inlaid with a pottery owl sitting on the branch of a flowering prunus, the tree in pewter, its blossoms in shell with gold lacquer details. Smaller birds fly around, three of takamakie, one of inlaid pottery
Signed on pottery tablets beneath: Hanzan
Information:
A tribute to Ritsuo no doubt. Compare with one from the Charles A. Greenfield collection, illustrated in the catalogue of his exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980, p. 88
MR176