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AN ELABORATE INLAID-LACQUER INRO
meiji period (late 19th century)
Of oval section, one side sliding along grooves to reveal four removable drawers with silver pulls, illustrated on one side with Jo and Uba sweeping pine needles on a beach, cranes circling overhead, the reverse with "The Three Friends of Winter", pine, bamboo, and plum, the designs inlaid in mother-of-pearl, coral, horn and colored ivory and set against a kinji ground, with clouds rendered in gold takamaki-e and waters in togidashi, interior compartments nashiji; fitted with a glass bead ojime--3½in. (9cm.) high, each drawer 1 1/8in. (3cm.) deep
meiji period (late 19th century)
Of oval section, one side sliding along grooves to reveal four removable drawers with silver pulls, illustrated on one side with Jo and Uba sweeping pine needles on a beach, cranes circling overhead, the reverse with "The Three Friends of Winter", pine, bamboo, and plum, the designs inlaid in mother-of-pearl, coral, horn and colored ivory and set against a kinji ground, with clouds rendered in gold takamaki-e and waters in togidashi, interior compartments nashiji; fitted with a glass bead ojime--3½in. (9cm.) high, each drawer 1 1/8in. (3cm.) deep