AN UNUSUAL JAPANESE SINGLE-CASE INRO 18TH CENTURY The heart-shaped body decorated with pomegranates and leaves in red and green on a gold lacquer background, a central square panel with a kirin and scrolling clouds in aogai (abalone shell) inlays, the reverse with a ho-ho bird, together with a lacquer ojime, unsigned, 7.8cm. Provenance: formerly in an English private collection. Purchased from Spink & Son Ltd. Cf. V Atchley & N Davey, The Virginia Atchley Collection of Japanese Miniature Arts, IN9 p.196, for a single-case inro with similar aogai decoration. According to the authors, this type of inro was probably produced in the Ryukyu Islands by Chinese craftsmen for the Japanese market.
AN UNUSUAL JAPANESE SINGLE-CASE INRO 18TH CENTURY The heart-shaped body decorated with pomegranates and leaves in red and green on a gold lacquer background, a central square panel with a kirin and scrolling clouds in aogai (abalone shell) inlays, the reverse with a ho-ho bird, together with a lacquer ojime, unsigned, 7.8cm. Provenance: formerly in an English private collection. Purchased from Spink & Son Ltd. Cf. V Atchley & N Davey, The Virginia Atchley Collection of Japanese Miniature Arts, IN9 p.196, for a single-case inro with similar aogai decoration. According to the authors, this type of inro was probably produced in the Ryukyu Islands by Chinese craftsmen for the Japanese market.
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