A Small Four-Case Lacquer Inro
A Small Four-Case Lacquer Inro

EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY)

Details
A Small Four-Case Lacquer Inro
Edo period (17th century)
Decorated on a nashiji ground with a rearing horse beneath a flowering cherry tree, the reverse with another tree and gate, all designed in negoro-style red and black takamaki-e and gold lacquer, interiors red lacquer with fundame edges
2 9/16in. (6.6cm.) long
Provenance
Ralph Harari, sold Sotheby's, London, The Harari Collection of Inro, 28 March, 1974, lot 9

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