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A FINE LACQUER TOBACCO POUCH AND NETSUKE MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY), NETSUKE SIGNED TAISHIN (IKEDA TAISHIN; 1825-1903) The dark ishime (rough stone finish) body, the hinged top decorated in gold and polychrome lacquers with a dragonfly and a click beetle, a shibuichi clasp of snail applied with a mother-of-pearl, the bamboo netsuke decorated with an egg plant; siganture in gold lacquer on base 4 3/8 x 3 in. (11.1 x 7.6 cm.)
Ikeda Taishin was born in Edo and became Shibata Zeshin’s first lacquer apprentice, aged eleven in 1835. He became an independent artist around 1870, approximately 25 years later. Together with Kawanobe Itcho (Genjiro; 1830-1910), Taishin was appointed an Artist to the Imperial Household (Teishitsu gigeiin) in 1896.