Three colour nephrite pendant. Nephrite, white mutton fat with darker olive and russet brown areas, carved with a rabbit towards the foot of the bottle with a kylin at the top near a gnarled tree. The other side with a hunter and bow trying to find a person hiding up by rocks. The foot with a seal which is carved for the Seal of the artist. Suzhou School. Chinese, 18th Century. Attachments: Blue quartz bead, seed pearls and brown cord. Provenance: Richard Marchant 1982. Published: Included on the exhibition poster. Dimensions: 6.4cm high x 3.5cm wide.
Nephrite seal & pendant
Suzhou School		 A three case togidashi Inro, roiro ground, and with nashiji interiors. Decorated with the seven sages of the bamboo grove (Chikurin shichi Kenjin, the Chinese Chuh lin ts'i hien), four of whom appear on the front, and three on the reverse, in a landscape with a bridge over a river with bamboo on the banks. Signed: Shiomi Masanari in seal form and Kajikawa saku in kanji. Provenance: Eskenazi 1981. Dimensions: 8.4cm long x 7cm wide It is strange to find the signatures of both Kajikawa (Family name) and Shiomi Masanari on the same Inro. The most likely cause is that the work is by one, after the other, although it is unclear whose was the original design.
Inro seven sages of the
bamboo grove 
Signed: Shiomi Masanari		 Shiomi Masanari in seal form.
Shiomi Masanari in seal form

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Three colour nephrite pendant. Nephrite, white mutton fat with darker olive and russet brown areas, carved with a rabbit towards the foot of the bottle with a kylin at the top near a gnarled tree.  The other side with a hunter and bow trying to find a person hiding up by rocks.  The foot with a seal which is carved for the Seal of the artist.  Suzhou School.  Chinese, 18th Century.  Attachments: Blue quartz bead, seed pearls and brown cord.  Provenance: Richard Marchant 1982.  Published: Included on the exhibition poster. Dimensions: 6.4cm high x 3.5cm wide.

A three case togidashi Inro, roiro ground, and with nashiji interiors.  Decorated with the seven sages of the bamboo grove (Chikurin shichi Kenjin, the Chinese Chuh lin ts'i hien), four of whom appear on the front, and three on the reverse, in a landscape with a bridge over a river with bamboo on the banks.  Signed: Shiomi Masanari in seal form and Kajikawa saku in kanji.  Provenance: Eskenazi 1981.  Dimensions: 8.4cm long x 7cm wide.  It is strange to find the signatures of both Kajikawa (Family name) and Shiomi Masanari on the same Inro.  The most likely cause is that the work is by one, after the other, although it is unclear whose was the original design.

Shiomi Masanari in seal form.