TWO LACQUER INRO

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TWO LACQUER INRO
EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

The first of cylindrical form decorated in gold and silver togidashi on a black ground with a large dragon amidst foaming waves, the interiors of the four cases nashiji, and fitted with a reticulated wood netsuke carved in the form of a dragon and clouds and with a wood bead ojime; the second of five cases decorated in gold and silver takamaki-e on a fundame ground with paulownia rising above a fence, the interior cases nashiji, and fitted with a red and black lacquer mokugyo-form netsuke and a metal ojime--2 7/8 and 2 3/8in. (7.3 and 6cm.) high, small chips (2)