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A FOUR-CASE LACQUER INRO
edo period (19th century)
The inro of oval section decorated in togidashi, takamaki-e, roiro, and kimpun, with two egrets of inlaid mother-of-pearl wading in a stream beneath a pine, the reverse with a house built over the water, details of the landscape and clouds in kirigane, interior cases in nashiji; fitted with an ivory ojime carved with a samurai, and an ivory netsuke modelled as a woman and child fulling cloth--3 3/8in. (8.4cm.) high
edo period (19th century)
The inro of oval section decorated in togidashi, takamaki-e, roiro, and kimpun, with two egrets of inlaid mother-of-pearl wading in a stream beneath a pine, the reverse with a house built over the water, details of the landscape and clouds in kirigane, interior cases in nashiji; fitted with an ivory ojime carved with a samurai, and an ivory netsuke modelled as a woman and child fulling cloth--3 3/8in. (8.4cm.) high