A four-case lacquer inro**
Edo period (18th century), signed Shiomi Masanari (1647-1722)
Decorated in varicolored gold, silver, red, green and black hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, togidashi and horn and coral inlay, with various children's New Year's toys, all against a dense foliate ground of gold and silver togidashi; with a lacquered-wood netsuke of a festival drummer
3¼in. (8.1cm.) long
A four-case lacquer inro**
Edo period (18th century), signed Shiomi Masanari (1647-1722)
Decorated in varicolored gold, silver, red, green and black hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, togidashi and horn and coral inlay, with various children's New Year's toys, all against a dense foliate ground of gold and silver togidashi; with a lacquered-wood netsuke of a festival drummer
3¼in. (8.1cm.) long
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