AN EARLY FOUR-CASE INRO
MOMOYAMA-EDO PERIOD, (Early-Mid 17th Century)
The nashiji ground, rubbed through to brown and black, decorated in takamaki-e with the large figures of three foreigners, either Tartars or Europeans, one holding a bow and another an uchiwa fan, all wearing tall-bowled hats with mokko-shaped brims, behind them two trees and a Chinese-style railing, the interior in nashiji and traces of ointments and powder in the cases, an early gilt yamagane ojime of a south-seas islander gripping the cord with his arms and legs and the kagamibuta netsuke consists of a horn cup with a yamagane nanako plate raised in partly gilt takabori with a Dutchman sticking a two-pronged fork into a large round cheese
9.0cm. high
AN EARLY FOUR-CASE INRO
MOMOYAMA-EDO PERIOD, (Early-Mid 17th Century)
The nashiji ground, rubbed through to brown and black, decorated in takamaki-e with the large figures of three foreigners, either Tartars or Europeans, one holding a bow and another an uchiwa fan, all wearing tall-bowled hats with mokko-shaped brims, behind them two trees and a Chinese-style railing, the interior in nashiji and traces of ointments and powder in the cases, an early gilt yamagane ojime of a south-seas islander gripping the cord with his arms and legs and the kagamibuta netsuke consists of a horn cup with a yamagane nanako plate raised in partly gilt takabori with a Dutchman sticking a two-pronged fork into a large round cheese
9.0cm. high
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