Sold for $625

Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium

Lot Description

Two Small Gold and Black Lacquer Inro

LATE 19TH CENTURY/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

the larger four-case example decorated with gold and mother-of-pearl inlays depicting various horses in an outdoor scene, the interior lacquered black, the smaller example decorated in gold hiramaki-e and hirame with five folding fans, the interior of nashiji, with boxwood peach-form netsuke carved with dragon motif, signed Kozan; both inro unsigned.

Length of larger 2 1/4 in., 5.5 cm.

Property from the Collection of Kevin Evensen, Chicago, Illinois

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