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A FIVE-CASE LACQUER INRO
edo period (19th century)
Of oval section decorated in gold and silver takamaki-e on a mottled gold ground with a maples, cloth banners and a Gagaku drum, the brocade of the banners rendered in a variety of geometric and floral patterns in hiramaki-e, details in kinji, interior cases in nashiji; fitted with a glass bead ojime and a lacquered metal netsuke molded in the form of a lotus leaf--4 3/8in. (11.1cm.) high, small chips, losses to kirigane
edo period (19th century)
Of oval section decorated in gold and silver takamaki-e on a mottled gold ground with a maples, cloth banners and a Gagaku drum, the brocade of the banners rendered in a variety of geometric and floral patterns in hiramaki-e, details in kinji, interior cases in nashiji; fitted with a glass bead ojime and a lacquered metal netsuke molded in the form of a lotus leaf--4 3/8in. (11.1cm.) high, small chips, losses to kirigane