A LARGE TWO-CASE KINJI-GROUND INRO modelled as a purse, one side with a silver-trimmed shaped panel decorated in Shibayama style with an inebriated oni dancing with a fan watched by a lady in hakama, the reverse with frogs fighting against grasshoppers among flowering shrubs, the surrounding area decorated in nashiji, hirame and takamakie with butterflies among flowers and scrolling foliage, nashiji interiors, unsigned, late 19th century, with pierced metal ojime

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A LARGE TWO-CASE KINJI-GROUND INRO modelled as a purse, one side with a silver-trimmed shaped panel decorated in Shibayama style with an inebriated oni dancing with a fan watched by a lady in hakama, the reverse with frogs fighting against grasshoppers among flowering shrubs, the surrounding area decorated in nashiji, hirame and takamakie with butterflies among flowers and scrolling foliage, nashiji interiors, unsigned, late 19th century, with pierced metal ojime
13.5cm. long

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