Chinkei (active 19th century) A four-case lacquer inro Edo period (1615-1868), early 19th century The dark brown ground decorated with combed waves in black lacquer and various seashells in painted ceramic inlays, and gold-lacquer waterweeds, the interiors fundame with silver liners and each applied with silver tablets for inscriptions, signed on a pottery tablet Chinkei 3in (7.7cm) high Fußnoten Provenance E. A. Wrangham Collection, sold, Bonhams, London, The Edward Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art, Part II, May 10, 2011, lot 341 Arthur Kay Collection, no.0587 Wrangham Collection, no.1360, purchased from Nihon Token, London, 1977 Published E.A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists, Harehope, Northumberland, 1995, p.37, Chinkei, top left
Chinkei (active 19th century) A four-case lacquer inro Edo period (1615-1868), early 19th century The dark brown ground decorated with combed waves in black lacquer and various seashells in painted ceramic inlays, and gold-lacquer waterweeds, the interiors fundame with silver liners and each applied with silver tablets for inscriptions, signed on a pottery tablet Chinkei 3in (7.7cm) high Fußnoten Provenance E. A. Wrangham Collection, sold, Bonhams, London, The Edward Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art, Part II, May 10, 2011, lot 341 Arthur Kay Collection, no.0587 Wrangham Collection, no.1360, purchased from Nihon Token, London, 1977 Published E.A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists, Harehope, Northumberland, 1995, p.37, Chinkei, top left
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