Showing the rich gyobu interior: A Kogo decorated all over, including the tray, in gold on black with bamboo growing beside a running stream.

Japanese Lacquer: A Kogo decorated all over, including the tray, in gold on black with bamboo growing beside a running stream.

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Bamboo & Stream Kogo

 

Koshinsai lacquer Kogo.

L44

A fine Kogo decorated in gold on a black ground. The cover and sides show scenes of bamboo growing beside a running stream.

The tray similarly decorated, the interior and base decorated in rich gyobu.

Japan, 19th century
Dimensions: 7.8cm x 6.5cm x 3.9cm.
Signed: Koshinsai

The signature is illustrated in E A Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists, p.150.

Provenance: Sotheby's 1973
Published: Item 366 'In Search of Netsuke and Inro' by George A. Cohen.

 
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