LATE 19TH CENTURY
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A Fine Three Case Shibayama Inro
Late 19th Century
Elaborately inlaid in various stained mother-of-pearl and horn inlays, with a seated courtier before a scholar's table on a terrace decorated in gold and silver hiramakie and hirame on a kinji ground, the reverse with two alarmed figures before a tsuitate decorated in togidashi depicting a landscape, minor wear, an attached silver ojime inlaid in gilt depicting a dragon and an ivory netsuke of two birds on a roof tile, eyes inlaid in dark horn, signed Hiroshi, slight chips
4 1/8in. (10.5cm.)
Late 19th Century
Elaborately inlaid in various stained mother-of-pearl and horn inlays, with a seated courtier before a scholar's table on a terrace decorated in gold and silver hiramakie and hirame on a kinji ground, the reverse with two alarmed figures before a tsuitate decorated in togidashi depicting a landscape, minor wear, an attached silver ojime inlaid in gilt depicting a dragon and an ivory netsuke of two birds on a roof tile, eyes inlaid in dark horn, signed Hiroshi, slight chips
4 1/8in. (10.5cm.)