A JAPANESE TWO-CASE LACQUER INRO

A JAPANESE TWO-CASE LACQUER INRO

MEIJI ERA, 19TH CENTURY

Shaped as a seashell, decorated to one side with a veranda and a flowering prunus tree beside it, the reverse with a carriage before a similar pavilion, probably references to the Tale of Genji; together with a wood netsuke carved as a cluster of molluscs, including a large abalone and a broken mussel; the inro 6.5cm.

Provenance: an Irish private collection, Dublin.

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