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A four-case lacquer inro
late 18th Century
decorated in gold and silver high takamakie and red and brown lacquer, with a large depiction of Daruma in contemplation above a mountain top, with scattered pine trees in the foreground, the priest wearing robes decorated with scrolling motifs, inset eyes, on a background of gold oki-hirame, nashiji interiors, oval metal ojime, wood netsuke of Itakura Shigemune, the inro --3¾in. (9.5cm.).
late 18th Century
decorated in gold and silver high takamakie and red and brown lacquer, with a large depiction of Daruma in contemplation above a mountain top, with scattered pine trees in the foreground, the priest wearing robes decorated with scrolling motifs, inset eyes, on a background of gold oki-hirame, nashiji interiors, oval metal ojime, wood netsuke of Itakura Shigemune, the inro --3¾in. (9.5cm.).