A rare Ryūkyū aogai inlaid four-case inrō. Second Shō dynasty, 18/19th century

A rare Ryūkyū aogai inlaid four-case inrō. Second Shō dynasty, 18/19th century Of standard shape bearing a black lacquer ground, decorated on one side with a group of Chinese hunters on horseback and on the other with Mongolian hunters, one of them holding a falcon, chasing and killing tigers, the top and bottom with shippō-tsunagi filled with hanabishi and the cord runners with tatewaku pattern, inlaid in incised, shaped, square and round-cut aogai. Black lacquer to the inside. Minor losses to the aogai. Inside the lid the paper label of the Greenfield Collection with the handwritten no. ‘106’ in red. Along with a green glass ojime and a Somada-style round hako-netsuke. Height 8.6 cm; width 5.8 cm

Estimate:£668.48

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