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A FOUR-CASE SHIBAYAMA-STYLE SHEATH INRO
meiji period (late 19th century), signed ekiju
Of rectangular form, the nashiji sheath designed on each side with a recessed kinji-ground panel of picnickers in an autumn landscape, decorated in gold takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, togidashi and inlaid with mother-of-pearl, colored ivory, coral, aogai and horn, one side with a young woman before a plum tree laughing as one of her drunken attendants stumbles, the reverse with three figures in a rice field and an eagle snatching away two fish from a young fisherman, the inner cases lacquered in gold togidashi with interlocking geometric and floral reserves patterns, interior cases nashiji, signed on the base in an inlaid red lacquer cartouche; fitted with an ivory bead ojime carved with cockerels and paulownia, and a wood netsuke carved as a fox emerging from a kettle beside a stand of tea utensils, signed Shujo?--3¾in. (9.6cm.) high
meiji period (late 19th century), signed ekiju
Of rectangular form, the nashiji sheath designed on each side with a recessed kinji-ground panel of picnickers in an autumn landscape, decorated in gold takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, togidashi and inlaid with mother-of-pearl, colored ivory, coral, aogai and horn, one side with a young woman before a plum tree laughing as one of her drunken attendants stumbles, the reverse with three figures in a rice field and an eagle snatching away two fish from a young fisherman, the inner cases lacquered in gold togidashi with interlocking geometric and floral reserves patterns, interior cases nashiji, signed on the base in an inlaid red lacquer cartouche; fitted with an ivory bead ojime carved with cockerels and paulownia, and a wood netsuke carved as a fox emerging from a kettle beside a stand of tea utensils, signed Shujo?--3¾in. (9.6cm.) high