Lot 163 D‡α

A six-case inrô. 19th century

Displaying a straw-thatched house with an iron lantern hanging from the eave and an uchiwa-shaped window with a bamboo lattice, in the garden an old blossoming plum tree and bamboo and a water basin with a laddle on a rock in takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, red and sabiji lacquer, all on a black ground with nashiji. To the inside nashiji and fundame. Bone ojime with drilled circle patterns and a kagamibuta with shibuichi disc with a sculptor working on a large oni mask, ivory bowl.
Height 9.7 cm; width 5.1 cm