A four-case lacquer inro**
Edo period (19th century)
Decorated in gold, silver and red takamaki-e with rats eating red peppers against a roiro ground applied with hirame and kirikane, the interior nashiji; with an ivory netsuke of rats in a basket signed Itsumin and with bead ojime
3in. (7.6cm.) long
A four-case lacquer inro**
Edo period (19th century)
Decorated in gold, silver and red takamaki-e with rats eating red peppers against a roiro ground applied with hirame and kirikane, the interior nashiji; with an ivory netsuke of rats in a basket signed Itsumin and with bead ojime
3in. (7.6cm.) long
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