A Ryūkyū tsuikin lacquer single-case inrō. 19th century

A Ryūkyū tsuikin lacquer single-case inrō. 19th century Of oblong standard shape, decorated all over with leafy scrolls in dark green lacquer paste encircling large stylised gold-painted blossoms and interspersed with smaller ochre and red flowerets and ‘berries’. Black lacquer to the inside. Inside the lid an orange paper label printed ‘Collection Maurice Garcon’ and with the handwritten collector’s no. ‘165’. Along with a coral-coloured ojime and a two-part manjū with almost the same design in tsuikin, diameter 3.7 cm, 19th century. Height 8.3 cm; width 5 cm

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