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A FIVE-CASE LACQUER INRO
edo period (19th century)
Of oval section decorated in gold, black and silver takamaki-e on a kinji ground with an oxherd seated on the back of an ox playing a flute, details of the landscape in kirigane, a small tree on the reverse, interior cases in gyobu-nashiji; fitted with a coral ojime and an ivory netsuke carved as two chestnuts and a burrowing worm--3¾in. (9.4cm.) high, losses to kirigane
edo period (19th century)
Of oval section decorated in gold, black and silver takamaki-e on a kinji ground with an oxherd seated on the back of an ox playing a flute, details of the landscape in kirigane, a small tree on the reverse, interior cases in gyobu-nashiji; fitted with a coral ojime and an ivory netsuke carved as two chestnuts and a burrowing worm--3¾in. (9.4cm.) high, losses to kirigane