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EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY)
Details
A Three-Case Inlaid Lacquer Inro
Edo period (late 17th century)
The small inro decorated with an applied shakudo saddled horse, seated monkey, and silver and gilt cherry blossoms beside a curtain under a flowering cherry tree rendered in gold and silver takamaki-e and hiramaki-e and hirame against a dense nashiji ground; interior cases nashiji, the edges of outer runners also metal; fitted with a coral bead ojime
2½in. (6.4cm.) long
Edo period (late 17th century)
The small inro decorated with an applied shakudo saddled horse, seated monkey, and silver and gilt cherry blossoms beside a curtain under a flowering cherry tree rendered in gold and silver takamaki-e and hiramaki-e and hirame against a dense nashiji ground; interior cases nashiji, the edges of outer runners also metal; fitted with a coral bead ojime
2½in. (6.4cm.) long
Provenance
Ralph Harari, sold Sotheby's, London, The Harari Collection of Inro, 28 March, 1974, lot 23