Taisai
A lacquer document box, boldly worked in taka-maki-e with a large peony bloom on a roiro ground, applied with lacquer rims imitating silver.
Signed Taisai
Dimensions 10.8cm x 33.3cm x 24.2cm
Meiji Period, circa 1910
(see E A Wrangham and J Earle "Index of Inro Artists" p. 280 , where he is listed a a possible pupil of Ikeda Taishin)
£3,000