Koma Kansai Family 古満寛哉
Medicine Case with Landscape, early–mid 19th century
Size 3 1/4 x 2 1/4 in. (8.6 x 5.2 cm)
T-4048
Further images
Four-case inrō (interlocking medicine case) of oval section with applied cord-runners, decorated in gold and silver hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, and togidashi maki-e with dense hirame forming an almost continuous gold surface,...
Four-case inrō (interlocking medicine case) of oval section with applied cord-runners, decorated in gold and silver hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, and togidashi maki-e with dense hirame forming an almost continuous gold surface, all against a polished black-lacquer ground, depicting a landscape of vertiginous peaks, pine and willow trees, a waterfall, a villa and wall, and fishermen’s dwellings by the water; the compartments and risers gold nashiji; the shoulders and rims gold fundame
Signed inside the lid with gold hiramaki-e characters Koma Kansai 古滿寛哉 with a kaō (artist’s monogram)
Signed inside the lid with gold hiramaki-e characters Koma Kansai 古滿寛哉 with a kaō (artist’s monogram)
Exhibitions
TEFAF 2016