JAPAN - Edo period (1603-1868), 19th century - Lot 62

JAPAN - Edo period (1603-1868), 19th century Set of two inro : - Three boxes decorated in taka maki-e gold lacquer and heidatsu on a brown background with a fortified town in front of a rural landscape dotted with small houses. Gold cartouches (faded) were used to name the localities. Agate ojime, wooden manju with inlaid flower decoration (inlay missing). Signed Heisensai. (Wear, fine crazing). Inro height: 8.1 cm - Four-square fundame lacquer box decorated in hira maki-e and taka maki-e red, gold and silver lacquer with two sambaso dancers. Nashiji interior. Glass ojime (scratches, chips, missing). Inro height: 9 cm Provenance: Strycker collection, Beaussant-Lefèvre, April 3, 2023, no. 372. Reference: this object was lent at the "Oude Kunst Leuvens Privébezit" exhibition in Leuven in 1964, no. P/62.