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A dark brown black lacquer two-case inro 17th century image 1
A dark brown black lacquer two-case inro 17th century image 2
Lot 317*

A dark brown black lacquer two-case inro
17th century

8 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A dark brown black lacquer two-case inro

17th century
Of wide form, decorated to one side with three resting servants and on the other side with a carriage, in gold lacquered and inlaid aogai, the interior of black lacquer, unsigned. 8.9cm (3½in).

Footnotes

御所車図螺鈿蒔絵印籠 無銘 17世紀

Provenance: Gillot Collection, Paris.

For a similar example, see the Catalogue of the W. L. Behrens collection, no.308, illus.pl.XXV.

The scene is taken from one of the chapters of the Genji Monogatari by Murasaki Shikibu in the early eleventh century.

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