Small Single-case Lacquer Ink-cake Inro Attributed to Ogawa Haritsu, known as Ritsuō (1663-1747)
Made from mottled green-brown lacquer, with low releif decoration of a tsuitate standing in front of a rock and bamboo on the recto, the verso with 4 character inscription, and one side with a seal in relief. The body is incised with imitation craquelure and there is considerable trompe l’œil distress intended to imitate an old ink stick
Unsigned. 18th century
Height 5.8 cm
Provenance:
W.L. Behrens collection (no. 1575 in Joly’s catalogue, illustrated on pl. LV)
MR5277
