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A KOETSU STYLE SINGLE-CASE LACQUER INRO DEPICTING A DRAGONFLY, THE CERAMIC NETSUKE BY MIURA KENYA
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A KOETSU STYLE SINGLE-CASE LACQUER INRO DEPICTING A DRAGONFLY, THE CERAMIC NETSUKE BY MIURA KENYA
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A KOETSU STYLE SINGLE-CASE LACQUER INRO DEPICTING A DRAGONFLY, THE CERAMIC NETSUKE BY MIURA KENYA
The inro by a follower of Hon'ami Koetsu Koetsu (1558-1637), signed Koetsu 光悦; the netsuke by Miura Kenya (1825-1889), signed Ken 乹
Japan, 18
th
-19
th
century, Edo period (1615-1868)
The wide-bodied, single-case inro bearing a masterfully lacquered and stippled ground imitating tree bark, a large dragonfly spread over the design, its body thickly lacquered in iro-e takamaki-e with highlights to the wings in hiramaki-e, the eyes painted behind crystal. The verso detailed with a pond with aquatic plants worked in takamaki-e, raden, and mitsuda. The interior cases of red lacquer with splashes of gold and gold fundame rims. Signed underneath KOETSU. With a coral ojime.
The ceramic netsuke brilliantly simulating a piece of charcoal (sumi) used for the tea ceremony, himotoshi through the side, and signed within a ceramic tablet KEN.
A beautifully matching set, incorporating the styles of Rinpa and ceramic traditions spanning the entire Edo period.
HEIGHT 5.3 cm, LENGTH 7.3 cm
Condition: Very good condition with expected wear and traces of use, particularly along the edges of the compartment and cord runners. Flaking and expected losses to inlays. The netsuke is in excellent condition.
Hon'ami Koetsu (1558-1637)
was a celebrated Japanese painter of the Tokugawa period who was also an innovator in lacquer work (with raised inlays of metal and shell and bold designs), a calligrapher, a potter, a connoisseur of swords, a landscape gardener, and a devotee of the tea ceremony. He was born in the imperial city of Kyoto and followed his father’s profession as purveyor of swords to the imperial court. In 1615 the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu granted him a territory in Takamine, northwest of Kyoto, where he established a hermitage called the Taikyo-an. Together with his equally remarkable relative Sotatsu, he founded a school of painting that was continued by Ogata Korin, the style of which was colorful and strongly decorative, recapturing the Yamato-e tradition of classical Japan.
Miura Kenya (1825-1889),
known as Kenya I, led a versatile life: first as a maker of clay dolls, then travelling to Nagasaki in 1854 to work on the first Japanese steamboat, in 1869 producing the first Japanese bricks, and from 1875 producing pottery at the Chomeiji in Tokyo. In an inscription on one of his inro he calls himself the last pupil of Ritsuo, and he was also strongly influenced by the style of Kenzan. See Earle, Joe [ed.] (1995) The Index of Inro Artists, p. 125.
Artist or Maker
Hon'Ami Koetsu
The inro by a follower of Hon'ami Koetsu Koetsu (1558-1637), signed Koetsu 光悦; the netsuke by Miura Kenya (1825-1889), signed Ken 乹
Japan, 18
th
-19
th
century, Edo period (1615-1868)
The wide-bodied, single-case inro bearing a masterfully lacquered and stippled ground imitating tree bark, a large dragonfly spread over the design, its body thickly lacquered in iro-e takamaki-e with highlights to the wings in hiramaki-e, the eyes painted behind crystal. The verso detailed with a pond with aquatic plants worked in takamaki-e, raden, and mitsuda. The interior cases of red lacquer with splashes of gold and gold fundame rims. Signed underneath KOETSU. With a coral ojime.
The ceramic netsuke brilliantly simulating a piece of charcoal (sumi) used for the tea ceremony, himotoshi through the side, and signed within a ceramic tablet KEN.
A beautifully matching set, incorporating the styles of Rinpa and ceramic traditions spanning the entire Edo period.
HEIGHT 5.3 cm, LENGTH 7.3 cm
Condition: Very good condition with expected wear and traces of use, particularly along the edges of the compartment and cord runners. Flaking and expected losses to inlays. The netsuke is in excellent condition.
Hon'ami Koetsu (1558-1637)
was a celebrated Japanese painter of the Tokugawa period who was also an innovator in lacquer work (with raised inlays of metal and shell and bold designs), a calligrapher, a potter, a connoisseur of swords, a landscape gardener, and a devotee of the tea ceremony. He was born in the imperial city of Kyoto and followed his father’s profession as purveyor of swords to the imperial court. In 1615 the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu granted him a territory in Takamine, northwest of Kyoto, where he established a hermitage called the Taikyo-an. Together with his equally remarkable relative Sotatsu, he founded a school of painting that was continued by Ogata Korin, the style of which was colorful and strongly decorative, recapturing the Yamato-e tradition of classical Japan.
Miura Kenya (1825-1889),
known as Kenya I, led a versatile life: first as a maker of clay dolls, then travelling to Nagasaki in 1854 to work on the first Japanese steamboat, in 1869 producing the first Japanese bricks, and from 1875 producing pottery at the Chomeiji in Tokyo. In an inscription on one of his inro he calls himself the last pupil of Ritsuo, and he was also strongly influenced by the style of Kenzan. See Earle, Joe [ed.] (1995) The Index of Inro Artists, p. 125.
Artist or Maker
Hon'Ami Koetsu