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EDO PERIOD (18TH-19TH CENTURY)
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A Four-Case Lacquer Sleeve Inro
Edo Period (18th-19th Century)
The sheath of rounded rectangular shape decorated in gold takamaki-ei, hiramaki-e and kimpun on a black lacquer ground with a farmer plowing in a rice field before a continuous scene of distant hills, the clouds in togidashi and the bridge and rocks with kirigane highlights, the reverse with rice sheaths drying beside a farmhouse and two farmers meeting on the road next to a river, the inro decorated in mura-nashiji, and the interior in roiro; fitted with a lacquered bead ojime and a kagamibuta netsuke, the soft metal plate chiseled in katakiribori with Okame, her face gilded
3¼in. (8.3cm.) high
Edo Period (18th-19th Century)
The sheath of rounded rectangular shape decorated in gold takamaki-ei, hiramaki-e and kimpun on a black lacquer ground with a farmer plowing in a rice field before a continuous scene of distant hills, the clouds in togidashi and the bridge and rocks with kirigane highlights, the reverse with rice sheaths drying beside a farmhouse and two farmers meeting on the road next to a river, the inro decorated in mura-nashiji, and the interior in roiro; fitted with a lacquered bead ojime and a kagamibuta netsuke, the soft metal plate chiseled in katakiribori with Okame, her face gilded
3¼in. (8.3cm.) high