A NINE CASE RED LACQUER INRO

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A NINE CASE RED LACQUER INRO
EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY), SIGNED KOMA YASUTADA SAKU

The slim rectangular inro of nine cases designed overall in takamaki-e in gold and silver with flowering vines with large leaves and spiralling tendrils on a red ground, the interior cases fundame; fitted with a large ivory seal-form netsuke of a shishi atop a rectangular seal plinth carved on the underside with seal-script characters--3 5/8in. (9.5cm.) high, minute surface chip