A gold and black lacquer four-case inro decorated in hiramakie, takamakie and red lacquer with a long armed monkey hanging from a tree and reaching for its shadow in a stream, the reverse with rockwork and foliage on a roironuri ground -- 2¾.in.long; with attached ivory netsuke of a cat chasing a rat on a square base -- 1¼.in.long.

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A gold and black lacquer four-case inro decorated in hiramakie, takamakie and red lacquer with a long armed monkey hanging from a tree and reaching for its shadow in a stream, the reverse with rockwork and foliage on a roironuri ground -- 2¾.in.long; with attached ivory netsuke of a cat chasing a rat on a square base -- 1¼.in.long.

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