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EDO PERIOD (LATE 18TH-MID 19TH CENTURY)
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A Four-Case Inro [Medicine Case] and Three Others
Edo Period (Late 18th-Mid 19th Century)
The first squared-off lenticular with integral himotoshi, brown-lacquer ground with kinpun towards the base, decoration in gold, silver and coloured hiramaki-e with inlay of stone, compartments and risers gold nashiji, shoulders and rims gold fundame, stone ojime, blue-and-white porcelain netsuke in the form of a gourd, with metal fittings; the second four cases, rounded rectangular with applied himotoshi, black-lacquer ground, decoration in gold and aokin hiramaki-e with kirikane and kinpun, compartments black lacquer, shoulders and rims gold fundame, risers with plant motifs in gold hiramaki-e, signed in gold hiramaki-e on the base Kozan saku [made by Kozan], shibuichi ojime decorated with plants and butterflies, wood and shibuichi manju netsuke with a boar by moonlight; and two small gold-lacquer inro
The first a hare and a monkey neck-wrestling; the second chidori [wave-birds or plovers] with nadeshiko [wild pinks], ferns and other plants; the third chrysanthemum mon; the fourth a flowering branch
3 x 2 7/8in. (7.7 x 7.1cm.), 2½ x 2in. (6.4 x 5.1cm.), 1 5/8 x 1¾in. (4.1 x 4.5cm.) and 2¼ x 1½in. (5.7 x 3.8cm.) respectively (4)
Edo Period (Late 18th-Mid 19th Century)
The first squared-off lenticular with integral himotoshi, brown-lacquer ground with kinpun towards the base, decoration in gold, silver and coloured hiramaki-e with inlay of stone, compartments and risers gold nashiji, shoulders and rims gold fundame, stone ojime, blue-and-white porcelain netsuke in the form of a gourd, with metal fittings; the second four cases, rounded rectangular with applied himotoshi, black-lacquer ground, decoration in gold and aokin hiramaki-e with kirikane and kinpun, compartments black lacquer, shoulders and rims gold fundame, risers with plant motifs in gold hiramaki-e, signed in gold hiramaki-e on the base Kozan saku [made by Kozan], shibuichi ojime decorated with plants and butterflies, wood and shibuichi manju netsuke with a boar by moonlight; and two small gold-lacquer inro
The first a hare and a monkey neck-wrestling; the second chidori [wave-birds or plovers] with nadeshiko [wild pinks], ferns and other plants; the third chrysanthemum mon; the fourth a flowering branch
3 x 2 7/8in. (7.7 x 7.1cm.), 2½ x 2in. (6.4 x 5.1cm.), 1 5/8 x 1¾in. (4.1 x 4.5cm.) and 2¼ x 1½in. (5.7 x 3.8cm.) respectively (4)
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