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A gold lacquer unusual four-case inro By Mototada, 19th century image 1
A gold lacquer unusual four-case inro By Mototada, 19th century image 2
A gold lacquer unusual four-case inro By Mototada, 19th century image 3
Lot 328

Amended
15 May 2012, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £39,650 inc. premium

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Footnotes

笈形竹網戸図蒔絵印籠 銘「基薫(花押)」 19世紀

Provenance: Baron Morimasa Takei collection, no.5.F.18.
Purchased from Spink & Son Ltd., London, 1993.
Wrangham collection, no.2045.

Published: E. A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists, 1995, p.187, Mototada, centre.

Exhibited: Treasures of the North, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, and Christie's, London, 2000, no.57.

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