Japanese Lacquer: Zeshin school Kogo, a sake cup bearing the character Ju (long life) and a kiku spray.

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Sake Cup Kogo

 

Zeshin school lacquer Kogo.

L38

A Kogo in the style of Shibata Zeshin, decorated on the roughened green lacquer ground with a sake cup bearing the character Ju (long life) and a kiku spray in gold and red takamakie, the
interior in gold and silver nashiji.

Japan, 19th century
Dimensions: 9.2cm x 7.2cm x 1.8cm.
Signed: Unsigned.
Provenance: Richard Marchant 1973
Published: Item 360 'In Search of Netsuke and Inro' by George A. Cohen.

 

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