Lot 170
FINE SIX-CASE BLACK LACQUER INRO
BY THE INAGAWA FAMILY, 19TH CENTURY
Auction: 15 October 2019 at 11:00 BST
£625
Description
the roiro ground with a light dusting of gold powder and lacquered in gold takamakie with silver details with chrysanthemum blossoms and auspicious Shou characters, the interior of nashiji, signed Inagawa saku with seal Nakaharu
Dimensions
8cm high
Footnote
Provenance:
Private Glasgow collection; collected in the 1960s and 1970s.
Note:
For a comparable black lacquer inro, also by the Inagawa family, see Bonhams' sale in their London rooms on 10.05.2011, lot 211.