A small grey-lacquer three-case inro


By Ogawa Haritsu (Ritsuo, 1663-1747), Edo period (1615-1868), 18th centuryBearing a shibuichi-nuri ishime ground, simulating metal, with two panels, one with a design of formalised flying butterflies and birds in relief over abstract patterns of gold hiramaki-e, the reverse with a ten-character poem in archaic script, the top and base with stylised dragons in relief and the interior of matt shibuichi-nuri lacquer, signed with two seals, Kan and Naoyuki; with a coral ojime. 6cm (2 3/8in) high.
|ProvenanceRaymond Bushell collection, purchased at Sotheby's, London, 1966.Edward Wrangham collection, no.670.PublishedSydney L. Moss, Eccentrics in Netsuke, London, 1982, no.11.