THE JAPANESE COLLECTION

Kajikawa four case inro.

L17

A four case brown lacquer inro decorated with an owl, in silver, on a prunus tree of pure gold. The reverse with a stream and full moon in silver.

Signed: Kajikawa
Provenance: Fletcher collection, Glendining
Published: Item 293 (inro) 'In Search of Netsuke and Inro' by George A. Cohen.
Dimensions: 8cm long x 4.5cm wide.

Ojime: Gilt pierced metal decorated with flowers.

Netsuke: A fine wood netsuke of a tree peony  (NL17)
Japan, 19th century

Signed: Somin, Ichirin botan, shinsha, Kiyo. (translation: Kiyo copied faithfully a single stem peony by Somin).