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A FIVE-CASE LACQUER INRO
edo period (late 18th-early 19th century), signed shiomi masakage
Of oval section decorated in iro-e togidashi with a partially unrolled hanging scroll mounted with poems on gold and silver decorated papers, inscribed near the right poem Jitsushige, the mounts of the scroll simulating brocade woven with a fretwork pattern and a wide top panel of scrolling peonies in red and gold, the scroll positioned diagonally across both sides on a brilliant roiro-nuri ground, interior cases nashiji, signed in red lacquer on the side; fitted with a carved lacquer bead ojime and a kagamibuta netsuke, the soft metal plate worked in relief with the figure of Fukurokuju beneath a pine tree, the ivory bowl cracked--3¾in. (9.5cm.) high
edo period (late 18th-early 19th century), signed shiomi masakage
Of oval section decorated in iro-e togidashi with a partially unrolled hanging scroll mounted with poems on gold and silver decorated papers, inscribed near the right poem Jitsushige, the mounts of the scroll simulating brocade woven with a fretwork pattern and a wide top panel of scrolling peonies in red and gold, the scroll positioned diagonally across both sides on a brilliant roiro-nuri ground, interior cases nashiji, signed in red lacquer on the side; fitted with a carved lacquer bead ojime and a kagamibuta netsuke, the soft metal plate worked in relief with the figure of Fukurokuju beneath a pine tree, the ivory bowl cracked--3¾in. (9.5cm.) high