A four-case lacquer inro
Meiji period (late 19th century), sealed Ryoun (Unno Moritoshi; 1837-1896)
Decorated in high relief, mixed-metal inlay, including gold, silver, shibuichi, copper and shakudo, with two scenes of festival dancers and musicians, all against a kinji ground and rimmed in hirame, the interior nashiji; with gold-lacquered, gourd-form netsuke decorated in maki-e with stylized chrysanthemum roundels with kirikane and mother-of-pearl inlay, also with silver ojime cast with flowers, signed Kazuhide
4in. (10.2cm.) long
A four-case lacquer inro
Meiji period (late 19th century), sealed Ryoun (Unno Moritoshi; 1837-1896)
Decorated in high relief, mixed-metal inlay, including gold, silver, shibuichi, copper and shakudo, with two scenes of festival dancers and musicians, all against a kinji ground and rimmed in hirame, the interior nashiji; with gold-lacquered, gourd-form netsuke decorated in maki-e with stylized chrysanthemum roundels with kirikane and mother-of-pearl inlay, also with silver ojime cast with flowers, signed Kazuhide
4in. (10.2cm.) long
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