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Two Four Case Inro
19th Century
Decorated in various colours of brown and grey takamakie with black details, with two birds sitting on a bamboo branch against a background of a burst of gyobu-mura-nashiji on a black lacquer ground, their eyes realistically inlaid in glass, with painted black pupils, the bamboo to the reverse in silver and gold lacquer, enriched with kirikane, nashiji interior, fundame rims, signed Toju and kao; and decorated in gold and silver takamakie with tsukegaki, takamakie with e-nashiji and gold kirikane, with a dreaming boy asleep beside a stream, leaning on a basket packed with flowers, his sickle idle in his belt, the reverse with a temple and maple trees in red and gold togidashi, signed Shimsen?
2 15/16in. (7.4cm.) and 3 3/16in. (8.2cm.) high respectively (2)
