Keywords: Ogawa Haritsu - Inro with a Western Bowman Aiming at a Faun - Walters 492275.jpg A standard shape light ceramic five compartment Inro ” decorated in ceramic relief with a faun holding a reed pipe The reverse with a European archer with brown hair and flowered coat wearing spurs Both in relief and with blue and green glazes The archer's robe with scrolls and flowers in dark blue green and red The hair is light brown The light cord runners with scales and the brown background incised to imitate tree bark Spurious signature and date in raised lacquer characters within an irregularly shaped gold lacquer section on the bottom of the inro The interior has a turquoise glaze The cord channels are external ca 1743 Edo earthenware with overglaze enamels and gold lacquer Inro cm 10 1 4 6 2 8 accession number 49 2275 30783 William T / Henry Walters Collection Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T or Henry Walters Signature Horeki san nen haru / Haritsu zo; Translation Made by Haritsu in the spring of the third year of Horeki 1753 place of origin Edo present-day Tokyo Japan Walters Art Museum license Art of Japan in the Walters Art Museum Ogawa Haritsu Ceramic reliefs Inro 18th-century reliefs Reliefs from Japan Earthenware from Japan |