A JAPANESE TWO-CASE WOOD INRO

A JAPANESE TWO-CASE WOOD INRO

EDO OR MEIJI, 18TH OR 19TH CENTURY

Possibly made of kurogaki (black persimmon), carved to one side with a lone figure walking on a bridge leading to a heavenly palace, the reverse with the Goddess Seiobo and two attendants standing beneath the fruiting branches of a peach tree, the base with a three-character signature, 7cm.

Provenance: an Irish private collection, Dublin.

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