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KANSHOSAI TOYO: A SUPERB STITCHED CHERRY BARK THREE-CASE LACQUER INRO WITH DEER
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05月09日 晚上7点 开拍 / 05月07日 下午3点 截止委托
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KANSHOSAI TOYO: A SUPERB STITCHED CHERRY BARK THREE-CASE LACQUER INRO WITH DEER

By Kanshosai Toyo (Iizuka Toyo), signed Toyo 桃葉 and kakihan
Japan, late 18th to early 19th century, Edo period (1615-1868)

Of upright rectangular form and oval section, made of clear lacquered cherry bark, stitched on both edges. One side is decorated with two magnificently lacquered, thick takamaki-e deer and a stone lantern finished in ishimeji-nuri. The other side is beautifully inlaid with mother-of-pearl depicting fallen cherry blossoms and a single butterfly. Signed to the underside KANSHOSHAI TOYO.

LENGTH 5.1 cm, HEIGHT 7.7 cm

Condition: Good condition with replaced mother-of-pearl inlays to the back, small losses to the cord holes and underside, as well as age-related minor wear.
Provenance:
Ex-collection Arthur Kay (1860-1939), according to the old label on the bottom case and stuck to the interior. Arthur Kay was a British industrialist and important collector, one of the earliest European collectors of Japanese lacquerware.

Iizuka (Kanshosai) Toyo was a distinguished lacquerer and inro decorator during the second half of the 18th century in Edo. He had many followers and used a wide range of techniques. The boldness and originality of the design may indicate an original work by this artist. For more information on the artist see Wrangham, E. A. (1995) The Index of Inro Artists, pp. 312-313.

As indicated by the closely related example listed in the literature comparison below, the design for this inro was taken from a painting by Kano Terunobu (1717-1763), who was an Edo painter very much favored by the Shogun Ieharu.

Japanese mountain cherry, Yamazakura, is a wild species which has a strong vitality and bark that regenerates after being carefully stripped. The collected bark is dried for more than three years before it is whittled and polished by hand, cut to the appropriate shape, and glued to the surface of a wooden base using nikawa animal glue. Other techniques entail carving pre-assembled layers of cherry bark into small shapes and polishing them for jewelry and other uses.

Literature comparison:
Compare a closely related inro by Kanshosai Toyo featuring similarly posed deers, illustrated in Sydney L. Moss Ltd., Lac Lacquer Lacquest, 2014, p. 190-191, no. 65.

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