A JAPANESE FOUR-CASE GOLD LACQUER INRO BY HARA YOYUSAI (1772-1845/6)

A JAPANESE FOUR-CASE GOLD LACQUER INRO BY HARA YOYUSAI (1772-1845/6)
EDO PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY

Decorated to one side with a scholar in an interior pensively holding a fan, with an open book before him and a screen decorated with bamboo at the back; the reverse with three boys, probably his students, one reading a book by a large vase of flowers; signed to the base, together with an agate ojime and a stag antler netsuke carved as a snake writhing around a tree stump, signed underneath, the inro 6.8cm.