Project Description

Inro with Dalikoku’s sack by Eda Isshi 

4-case black lacquer inro, decorated in chinkinbori with two rats beside Daikoku’s treasure sack on top of which rests his mallet. The interiors of nashiji

Signed: eda isshi sen [engraved]

Height: 8.5 cm

Provenance: 

Spink & Son Ltd., London, 1981

E.A. Wrangham, Northumberland (purchased from the above 1981)

His sale, Part IV, Bonhams London, 6th November 2013, lot 274

Literature: 

E.A. Wrangham, The Index of Inrō Artists, p. 92

MR192