A Three-Case Lacquer Sheath Inro
A Three-Case Lacquer Sheath Inro

EDO PERIOD (LATE 18TH CENTURY), SIGNED TOYO AND WITH KAO (CURSIVE MONOGRAM)

細節
A Three-Case Lacquer Sheath Inro
Edo Period (late 18th century), signed Toyo and with kao (cursive monogram)
Decorated with autumn plants on the exterior in colored togidashi and hirame against a roiro-nuri ground, the cases designed in gold and silver togidashi and e-nashiji with similar plants; interior cases red lacquer; fitted with a gilt-copper ojime of Hotei with his treasure sack
2¾in. (6.8cm.) long
來源
Ralph Harari, sold Sotheby's, London, The Harari Collection of Inro, 28 March, 1974, lot 142