A FOUR-CASE INRO [MEDICINE CASE] Signed Bunryusai , Edo Period (Early/Mid-19th Century) Black lacquer ground sprinkled with gold flakes; each side with a circular gold-lacquer panel decorated in gold, silver and coloured hiramaki-e [low-relief lacquer] embellished with gold flakes; compartments and risers gold nashiji [gold flakes suspended in clear lacquer]; rims gold lacquer; the sides of the inner compartments each with two lobed cut-outs One side with the Getto [Moon-Palace]; the other side with a Chinese goddess and attendant on clouds, signed in gold hiramaki-e [low-relief lacquer] on the base Bunryusai , with a red kao ; mokume [marbled] lacquer ojime [bead]; wood kagami netsuke with central panel carved with a simple Chinese-style landscape with figures crossing a bridge 2 3/8 x 2 5/8in. (6 x 6.8cm.)
A FOUR-CASE INRO [MEDICINE CASE] Signed Bunryusai , Edo Period (Early/Mid-19th Century) Black lacquer ground sprinkled with gold flakes; each side with a circular gold-lacquer panel decorated in gold, silver and coloured hiramaki-e [low-relief lacquer] embellished with gold flakes; compartments and risers gold nashiji [gold flakes suspended in clear lacquer]; rims gold lacquer; the sides of the inner compartments each with two lobed cut-outs One side with the Getto [Moon-Palace]; the other side with a Chinese goddess and attendant on clouds, signed in gold hiramaki-e [low-relief lacquer] on the base Bunryusai , with a red kao ; mokume [marbled] lacquer ojime [bead]; wood kagami netsuke with central panel carved with a simple Chinese-style landscape with figures crossing a bridge 2 3/8 x 2 5/8in. (6 x 6.8cm.)
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