A GROUP OF FIVE INRO,** including A THREE-CASE LACQUER INRO, decorated in gold hiramakie, takamakie and kirikane with thatched houses on the banks of a river, the reverse with a bridge, simulated coral ojime; A FIVE-CASE LACQUER INRO, the slender, rectangular inro decorated with horses in a continuous landscape, with wood netsuke carved as a recumbent man with a monkey on his back; A FOUR-CASE LACQUER INRO, decorated in a continuous landscape with flowering tree and butterfly, the reverse with a curled up cat; A FIVE-CASE LACQUER INRO, the slender rectangular inro with pavillions in mountainous landscape on a red ground; and A THREE-CASE IVORY INRO, of flattened rectangular and carved with a squirrel scampering down a pine tree, the reverse with an elephant by a partition and a stand of bamboo, ivory netsuke of an elderly man carrying a basket with a giant peach (5)

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A GROUP OF FIVE INRO,** including A THREE-CASE LACQUER INRO, decorated in gold hiramakie, takamakie and kirikane with thatched houses on the banks of a river, the reverse with a bridge, simulated coral ojime; A FIVE-CASE LACQUER INRO, the slender, rectangular inro decorated with horses in a continuous landscape, with wood netsuke carved as a recumbent man with a monkey on his back; A FOUR-CASE LACQUER INRO, decorated in a continuous landscape with flowering tree and butterfly, the reverse with a curled up cat; A FIVE-CASE LACQUER INRO, the slender rectangular inro with pavillions in mountainous landscape on a red ground; and A THREE-CASE IVORY INRO, of flattened rectangular and carved with a squirrel scampering down a pine tree, the reverse with an elephant by a partition and a stand of bamboo, ivory netsuke of an elderly man carrying a basket with a giant peach (5)

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