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EDO-MEIJI PERIOD (19TH CENTURY),
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A GROUP OF JAPANESE INRO AND A PORTABLE WRITING SET**,
EDO-MEIJI PERIOD (19TH CENTURY),
the writing set carved with a pavillion in a landscape and comprising two inkstones and ink cakes; a four-case carved lacquer inro with Chinese scholars in a garden, with a lacquer bead ojime and ebony netsuke of a mountain pavillion, signed Masatoshi; a wood cabinet-style inro enclosing five ivory and bamboo drawers and fitted with a carved wood ojime and a wood netsuke carved as a double-gourd; and a single case wood inro carved with an immortal and archaistic Chinese characters with a stained ivory netsuke of two men tasting sake, inscribed
4¼in. (10.8cm.) long (4)
EDO-MEIJI PERIOD (19TH CENTURY),
the writing set carved with a pavillion in a landscape and comprising two inkstones and ink cakes; a four-case carved lacquer inro with Chinese scholars in a garden, with a lacquer bead ojime and ebony netsuke of a mountain pavillion, signed Masatoshi; a wood cabinet-style inro enclosing five ivory and bamboo drawers and fitted with a carved wood ojime and a wood netsuke carved as a double-gourd; and a single case wood inro carved with an immortal and archaistic Chinese characters with a stained ivory netsuke of two men tasting sake, inscribed
4¼in. (10.8cm.) long (4)
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