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