Lacquer technique with gold, wood. Japan, 19th cent.
Four-tiered inro with black roironuri and lightly scattered golden nashiji. The depiction suggests hilly to mountainous countryside, but places mainly plants in the foreground, with dynamic, striped, lance-shaped leaves and small red blossoms. Inside the inro compartments is golden nashiji. Traces of use.
Little glass ojime, netsuke of presum. kiri wood shows a large, round basket, in which there are compactly arranged pine needles with radial structure, branches uppermost. Very good condition.
HEIGHT INRO 9,3 CM, NETSUKE DM 4 CM
From a Swedish collection