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A SMALL HEXAGONAL INCENSE CONTAINER (KOGO)
edo period (early 19th century)
Decorated on the lid with three cranes wading in a stream below overhanging pine in gold hiramaki-e and takamaki-e on a roiro-nuri ground, the sides similarly designed with cranes flying above wheels and a stream and a salt gatherer carrying buckets to huts along a pine beach, the underside of the lid rendered in takamaki-e with two silver egrets balanced on a basket of stones by a river on a nashiji ground which continues, with additional rippling water in gold hiramaki-e, in the interior, applied on each side with silver ring fittings; fitted with a removable inner tray of hexagonal shape lacquered with tiny cranes flying over boats in gold hiramaki-e on a ground of togidashi, roiro, nashiji and kimpun--3 5/8in. (9.2cm.) diameter, 2 1/8in. (5.3cm.) high
edo period (early 19th century)
Decorated on the lid with three cranes wading in a stream below overhanging pine in gold hiramaki-e and takamaki-e on a roiro-nuri ground, the sides similarly designed with cranes flying above wheels and a stream and a salt gatherer carrying buckets to huts along a pine beach, the underside of the lid rendered in takamaki-e with two silver egrets balanced on a basket of stones by a river on a nashiji ground which continues, with additional rippling water in gold hiramaki-e, in the interior, applied on each side with silver ring fittings; fitted with a removable inner tray of hexagonal shape lacquered with tiny cranes flying over boats in gold hiramaki-e on a ground of togidashi, roiro, nashiji and kimpun--3 5/8in. (9.2cm.) diameter, 2 1/8in. (5.3cm.) high