

Lot 168*
A rare lacquer rabbit-shaped single-case inro After Shibata Zeshin, Meiji/Taisho Period
11 November 2010, 14:30 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £9,600 inc. premium
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After Shibata Zeshin, Meiji/Taisho Period
In the form of a captured rabbit hanging upside down, its legs tightly bound, the brown lacquer ground with fine hair in black hiramakie and piebald patches of gold lacquer, the eyes inlaid and the interior of nashiji, inscribed Zeshin zo; with partly-lacquered wood netsuke of a seated drunken man, unsigned; with wood storage box. 12.7cm (5in) high. (2).
In the form of a captured rabbit hanging upside down, its legs tightly bound, the brown lacquer ground with fine hair in black hiramakie and piebald patches of gold lacquer, the eyes inlaid and the interior of nashiji, inscribed Zeshin zo; with partly-lacquered wood netsuke of a seated drunken man, unsigned; with wood storage box. 12.7cm (5in) high. (2).
Footnotes
兎形蒔絵とんこつ 銘「是眞造」 明治時代/大正時代