A FOUR-CASE LACQUER INRO
A FOUR-CASE LACQUER INRO

LATE EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

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A FOUR-CASE LACQUER INRO
late edo period (19th century)
Lacquered in gold hiramaki-e and gold and silver takamaki-e with crickets and flowering grasses, some of the petals inlaid aogai and the drops of dew on the arching grasses inlaid silver, the ground black lacquer and the ends black lacquer and nashiji, the inner cases nashiji; fitted with a coral bead ojime
3in. (8.4cm.) high