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A BRILLIANT FOUR-CASE BLACK LACQUER INRO WITH KIKU AND KOTOBUKI
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2023年12月01日 开拍 / 2023年11月29日 截止委托
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A BRILLIANT FOUR-CASE BLACK LACQUER INRO WITH KIKU AND KOTOBUKI

Unsigned
Japan, 19th century, Edo period (1615-1868)

The four-case inro of rounded upright form and oval sectional, lacquered in yamimaki-e (black on black lacquer) with Kotobuki kanji characters 壽 (Ju), which mean felicity and long-life, interspersed with leafy kiku flowers. The interior compartments of nashiji with gold fundame edges.

HEIGHT 8.7 cm, LENGTH 5.6 cm

Condition: A few chips along the edges of the top case. Otherwise in good condition and presenting well.
Provenance: Duval Gallery, Brussels, February 2, 1949. Collection of Robert and Isabelle de Strycker, acquired from the above. An old collector’s label to the interior, ‘L,652’.Robert de Strycker (1903-1968) was a French engineer who specialized in metallurgy. He was a Stanford graduate, a professor at the University of Leuven, a director of the Institute of Metallurgy at the Université Catholique de Louvain, and one of the most influential members of the faculty of applied sciences. After World War II, he made large contributions to France’s post-war recovery. Robert and his wife Isabelle (1915-2010) first encountered Chinese art at the British Museum during a stay in London in the 1930s. Enamored with the style and beauty, they both decided to study and collect Chinese works of art. In 1938 they eventually began to build their collection, buying from Belgian, Parisian, and English dealers. They kept close contact with the famous English collector Sir Harry Garner (1891-1977) and noted Czech collector and expert Fritz Low-Beer (1906-1976). In 1964, the couple lent 174 objects from their collection to the Belgian city of Leuven’s museum for an exhibition titled Oude kunst in Leuvens Privébezit (‘Old Art in Private Collections in Leuven’), and in 1967 they lent around thirty Japanese objects to the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels for their exhibition Kunst van Japan im belgischen Privatverzameingen (‘Japanese Art in Belgian Private Collections’).

The black relief on a black background, 'black on black' as Raymond Bushell calls it in his book 'The Inro Handbook', is a very rare technique. On the one hand difficult to execute, on the other hand not so popular, because the exquisite skills of the artist are not revealed at first sight.

Auction comparison:
Compare a closely related three-case lacquer inro depicting insects on fern, signed Koma Kansai, with similarly rendered yamimaki-e, at Lempertz, Netsuke, Inro and Sagemono from a Rhenish Collection, 7 December 2018, Cologne, lot 550 (sold for EUR 13,125).

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拍品估价:800 - 1,500 欧元 起拍价格:800 欧元  买家佣金: 35.00%

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