A FIVE CASE LACQUER INRO EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY), SIGNED TOSHIHIDE AND SEALED TOKEI The five case inro fashioned in the form of a sake jar and decorated in gold and red takamaki-e with three long-haired shojo set against a kinji ground below a collar of lustrous gold gyobu , the top case cover formed as the lid of the sake jar decorated on the top in togidashi with foaming waves and around the rim with a gold and aogai diaper band, the interior cases nashiji and red lacquer, three of which fitted with extra removable inner cases of red, black or nashiji lacquer, fitted with a bead ojime and ivory netsuke modelled as a seated dog- 3 3/8 in. (8.4 cm.) high, slight buckling below surface bottom case, minute gyobu flake losses
A FIVE CASE LACQUER INRO EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY), SIGNED TOSHIHIDE AND SEALED TOKEI The five case inro fashioned in the form of a sake jar and decorated in gold and red takamaki-e with three long-haired shojo set against a kinji ground below a collar of lustrous gold gyobu , the top case cover formed as the lid of the sake jar decorated on the top in togidashi with foaming waves and around the rim with a gold and aogai diaper band, the interior cases nashiji and red lacquer, three of which fitted with extra removable inner cases of red, black or nashiji lacquer, fitted with a bead ojime and ivory netsuke modelled as a seated dog- 3 3/8 in. (8.4 cm.) high, slight buckling below surface bottom case, minute gyobu flake losses
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