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A four-case inro
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A four-case inro

UNSIGNED, 19TH CENTURY

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A four-case inro
Unsigned, 19th Century
Oval with attached himotoshi, stamped brown lacquer ground, decoration in red, green lacquer on applied wood with four Chinese gentlemen, compartments and risers in black lacquer
3½in. (9cm.)
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Lot Essay

Else and Heinz Kress record only six examples of this style in their archives. This therefore is a further, unrecorded, example.

A similar example is published in Else and Heinz Kress, Inro of the Ryukyus, Lacquered Medicine Containers (Bonn, 2002), p. 57.

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