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Property from the Collection of Drs. Edmund and Julie Lewis
Shogetsu (1877-?)
A small three-case black-lacquer inroEdo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912), 19th centuryOf almost oval form, simulating tsuikoku, each side bearing a sunken panel, one carved in relief with a tiger in stands of bamboo, the other with a dragon partly obscured by storm clouds, the interior of black lacquer, signed Shogetsudo Zonsei; fitted with a bone ojime carved as a biwa fruit 2 3/4in (7cm) high
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ProvenanceE.A. Wrangham Collection, sold Bonhams, London, The Edward Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art, Part I, November 9, 2010, lot 330; purchased at Sotheby's, London, 1989PublishedE.A.Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists, Alnwick, Northumberland, 1995, p.247Shogetsu, who used the names Shogetsusai and Shogetsudo, was born in 1877 and became a student of Shirayama Shosai. On this inro, the artist is simulating the style of Murakami Zonsei.