A iron mokko shaped plate pierced with inome at the lobes. The surface has been carved with rocks, flowers, waves, and silk tassels; the surface has some gilt that is not particularly apparent to the naked eye but shows in the photos as “white spots/specks”. Comes with a wood tomobako storage box.
Condition: Good with rusty coloration on some areas of the interior walls of the inome,
Provenance: Metropolitan Museum of New York, sold Christie’s New York, March 18 2008, lot 301 (part)
Howard Mansfield Collection