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A FOUR CASE LACQUER INRO
EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY), SIGNED KOMA KYUHAKU SAKU AND SIGNED BY METALWORKER HAMANO MASAYORI
Of rectangular shape inlaid with three soft metal figures of the woodsman Kosagi, one of the twenty-four Japanese paragons of filial piety, observed by the Emperor and an attendant, as he fills his double gourd from the waterfall which has been changed to sake by the gods, the landscape rendered in takamaki-e in gold, silver and red, details of kirigane, kimpun and various techniques, the interior cases gyobu nashiji; fitted with an ivory netsuke of a farmer and a lacquer bead ojime; signature of the metalmaker engraved on an inlaid gold plaque--3¾in. (8.3cm.) high
EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY), SIGNED KOMA KYUHAKU SAKU AND SIGNED BY METALWORKER HAMANO MASAYORI
Of rectangular shape inlaid with three soft metal figures of the woodsman Kosagi, one of the twenty-four Japanese paragons of filial piety, observed by the Emperor and an attendant, as he fills his double gourd from the waterfall which has been changed to sake by the gods, the landscape rendered in takamaki-e in gold, silver and red, details of kirigane, kimpun and various techniques, the interior cases gyobu nashiji; fitted with an ivory netsuke of a farmer and a lacquer bead ojime; signature of the metalmaker engraved on an inlaid gold plaque--3¾in. (8.3cm.) high