A Black Lacquer Three-Case Inro

The broad, rectangular body with a rich roiro ground lacquered in delicate gold and iro-e togidashi maki-e and e-nashiji with a goose swimming on calm rippled waters among lotus plants on one side and a clump of stalks of blue-bearded irises growing among reeds on the reverse, the interior of red lacquer with matt gold lacquer risers, signed on the base in gold hiramaki-e Kansai saku, with an inlaid bronze tubular ojime decorated with irises in silver high relief, signed Tomoyuki within a rectangular reserve, and a two-part lacquered manju -netsuke inlaid in coloured shell high relief with three ants crawling beside two sprays of berried leaves, signed on the reverse Akashi within a carved red-lacquer rectangular reserve.

Estimate:£6,000

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