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Japanese lacquerware (Urushi) has a very old tradition. It is manufactured by applying layers and successive layers of materials of secret mixtures. Lacquer work can survive for centuries, the oldest lacquer excavations with simple decorations date to about 8,000 BC. Shibayama Inlay (Shibayama Zogan) is also a lacker art-form distinguished by high-relief inlays made from shell, coral, tortoiseshell and ivory among others.

This elephant ivory with a delicate inlaid of birds, insects and flowers is 7 cm high and 4 cm wide. It is sophisticated inlaid in the Japanese Shibayama manner, elaborated with Mother-of-pearl, abalone, tortoiseshell, coral, amber and gilded lacker work, all the inlaid is intact. There is a 6 mm bronze collar, it is on top of a slender snakewood shaft with a bimetal ferrule. The O.L. is 90 cm. With no chips or cracks or inlaid missing, the condition is perfect.

Around 1870, Japanese fashion objects were in high favour in Europe and styles much imitated.

For more info about Shibayama check this link: https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/shibayama-inlay/lAIisfPbYrziIg

We deliver this piece with a signed document issued by a certified appraiser, corroborating the ivory is older than 100 years and therefore before 1947.

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