A Five-Case Lacquer Inro
Edo Period (early 19th Century), with signature Yoyusai [Hara Yoyusai]
Of oval section and decorated with two beauties attending to their toilettes, one standing and one seated and each holding an oval mirror, lacquered in gold and silver togidashi, takamaki-e and hiramaki-e, the edges of the underrobes red lacquer and the back of one mirror and the rim of the other, hair and part of one obi black lacquer, and the ground kinji and yellow-gold hirame, the interiors decorated in nashiji; fitted with an agate bead ojime and a lacquered-wood netsuke modelled as a noh actor
3½in. (8.9cm.) long
A Five-Case Lacquer Inro
Edo Period (early 19th Century), with signature Yoyusai [Hara Yoyusai]
Of oval section and decorated with two beauties attending to their toilettes, one standing and one seated and each holding an oval mirror, lacquered in gold and silver togidashi, takamaki-e and hiramaki-e, the edges of the underrobes red lacquer and the back of one mirror and the rim of the other, hair and part of one obi black lacquer, and the ground kinji and yellow-gold hirame, the interiors decorated in nashiji; fitted with an agate bead ojime and a lacquered-wood netsuke modelled as a noh actor
3½in. (8.9cm.) long
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