LUCIEN GAILLARD (1861-1942) and KICHIZO INAGAKI (1876-1951)
Cigarette box in burned pine decorated with a beetle in patinated bronze, circa 1907
Signed ‘L.GAILLARD’ on front side of lid
6,7 cm high × 11,6 cm wide × 9,5 cm deep – 2,6 × 4,5 × 3,7 in.
Provenance
Ira Simon Collection, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Literature references: Alexandra Jaffré, «Au service de l’orfèvre parisien Lucien Gaillard», in Seizô Sougawara Maître Laqueur d’Eileen Gray, Paris: Edition Mérode, 2018, page 36
Note: This work was included in the exhibition ‘Japonisme: Japanese Influence on French Art, 1854 – 1910’ at the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1975
