A four-case black and gold lacquer inro decorated in hiramakie and takamakie with autumnal shrubs below a sickle moon, on a nashiji ground, the interior also of nashiji -- 2½.in.high; and an attached ivory netsuke modelled as a coiled snake among a group of frogs on a lotus leaf, horn inlaid eyes -- 1½.in.long, signed.

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A four-case black and gold lacquer inro decorated in hiramakie and takamakie with autumnal shrubs below a sickle moon, on a nashiji ground, the interior also of nashiji -- 2½.in.high; and an attached ivory netsuke modelled as a coiled snake among a group of frogs on a lotus leaf, horn inlaid eyes -- 1½.in.long, signed.

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