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LATE EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY), INSCRIBED MASANAO AND WITH KAO
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A THREE-CASE WOOD INRO
late edo period (19th century), inscribed masanao and with kao
Of rectangular form inlaid in wood with Jo and Uba looking out of a hole of a large pine tree, the reverse lightly carved in relief with a distant mountain and with a inlaid-horn hill, two inlaid-ivory sails and inlaid-wood bamboo leaves; fitted with a wood netsuke modelled as an adult monkey with its young on the shoulder riding on the back of a turtle, signed Sogetsu and an agate bead ojime
3in. (8.3cm.) long
late edo period (19th century), inscribed masanao and with kao
Of rectangular form inlaid in wood with Jo and Uba looking out of a hole of a large pine tree, the reverse lightly carved in relief with a distant mountain and with a inlaid-horn hill, two inlaid-ivory sails and inlaid-wood bamboo leaves; fitted with a wood netsuke modelled as an adult monkey with its young on the shoulder riding on the back of a turtle, signed Sogetsu and an agate bead ojime
3in. (8.3cm.) long