A Japanese Inlaid Gold and Red Lacquer Three-Case Inro

19TH CENTURY

the wide rectangular inro decorated in gold, colored hiramaki-e and takamaki-e with porcelain and mother-of-pearl inlays showing a bird bearing a crawfish in its beak, perched on a gnarled tree, set on a red lacquer background, the underside bearing a four-character maker's mark, 笠公羽畫; together with a mixed-metal bead-form ojime and a painted bone leaf-form netsuke.

Length 2 3/4 in., 7 cm.

Property from The Strong National Museum of Play, sold to benefit the Collections Fund

The body with some light surface scratches, the inlays intact, but a vertical crack to the top case. The top of the case with a small indentation, free of loss. Rubbing between cases as expected with use, the string broken. Some rubbing of gilt details to the ojime, the netsuke with a missing lobe to the insect.

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Annie Wu

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Ms. Wu joined the firm in 2014, after working as a specialist in the Asian Works of Art Department of an East Coast auction house. She researches, appraises, and sells Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, and South East Asian works of art, including jades, bronzes, ceramics, paintings, armor, and furniture. Throughout her career, Ms. Wu has achieved record prices for several prominent estates and collections, including the Estate of Frank G. Mertes, Sr., Winona, Minnesota; the Chinese Painting Collection of Ms. Yuan Jiaying and Mr. Li Guoyuan, Chicago; the Estate of Hisazo Nagatani, Chicago, and the Asian Art Collection deaccessioned from the Strong Museum of Play, Rochester, New York.

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Strong Diversions: Property from a Lifetime of Play

A Japanese Inlaid Gold and Red Lacquer Three-Case Inro

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