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A SOMADA SCHOOL FOUR-CASE LACQUER INRO
edo period (19th century)
Decorated in iro-e hiramaki-e, aogai and gold foil against a roiro-nuri ground embellished with nashiji with fans beneath awnings hung with New Year's decorations, one fan illustrated with a crane and pine tree, the reverse with flowering bulbs in a bronze vessel, interior cases in nashiji; fitted with a soft metal ojime cast in relief with a frog on a lotus leaf, and a wood Okame mask netsuke--4 3/8in. (11.1cm.) high, minor losses to aogai and gold foil
edo period (19th century)
Decorated in iro-e hiramaki-e, aogai and gold foil against a roiro-nuri ground embellished with nashiji with fans beneath awnings hung with New Year's decorations, one fan illustrated with a crane and pine tree, the reverse with flowering bulbs in a bronze vessel, interior cases in nashiji; fitted with a soft metal ojime cast in relief with a frog on a lotus leaf, and a wood Okame mask netsuke--4 3/8in. (11.1cm.) high, minor losses to aogai and gold foil