A five-case lacquer inro
A five-case lacquer inro

EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

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A five-case lacquer inro
Edo period (19th century)
Decorated in varicolored gold, silver and red hiramaki-e, takamaki-e and kirikane with hawks perched in a pine tree and feeding chicks above falls, all against a dark-brown lacquer ground; with a lacquered-wood netsuke of a pine cone decorated in nashiji
3¾in. (9.5cm.) long

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