Sold for $630

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Lot Description

A Japanese Gold and Black Lacquer Four-Case Inro

By a member of the Kajikawa family, Edo Period, 18th Century

銘「梶川作（壷印）」
of rectangular form decorated in gold and slight coloured takamaki-e and hiramaki-e with a mythical beast and a doll appearing out of a box with a man seated next to the box with his eyes closed, two children playing with the beast, details inlaid with shell, all reserved on a black ground with gold sprinkles, signed Kajikawa saku with red pot seal; together with two coral colored glass ojime, an iron red and gilt decorated porcelain clam-form netsuke painted with a fish and a shrimp and a cloth tobacco purse.

Height 2 3/8 in., 6 cm.

Condition Report

In overall decent condition with very minor losses of lacquer along the edges.

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