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A FIVE-CASE LACQUER INRO
edo period (19th century)
Of rectangular shape lacquered on a kinji ground in gold, silver and brown takamaki-e and hiramaki-e with a continous scene of horses by a stream beneath a willow tree, the stream designed in gold togidashi, landscape details in kirigane, interior cases nashiji; fitted with an ivory bead ojime carved with trotting horses, signed [Ji?]ei and a wood manju netsuke inlaid in mother-of-pearl, ivory, coral and horn with a butterfly and flowering camellia, signed Shibayama--3 1/8in. (7.8cm.) high
edo period (19th century)
Of rectangular shape lacquered on a kinji ground in gold, silver and brown takamaki-e and hiramaki-e with a continous scene of horses by a stream beneath a willow tree, the stream designed in gold togidashi, landscape details in kirigane, interior cases nashiji; fitted with an ivory bead ojime carved with trotting horses, signed [Ji?]ei and a wood manju netsuke inlaid in mother-of-pearl, ivory, coral and horn with a butterfly and flowering camellia, signed Shibayama--3 1/8in. (7.8cm.) high