A JAPANESE FOUR-CASE GOLD AND BLACK LACQUER INRO

A JAPANESE FOUR-CASE GOLD AND BLACK LACQUER INRO
EDO PERIOD, 18TH CENTURY

Decorated with a sarumawashi, the monkey trainer holding his monkey's leash whilst his pet balances on a pole erected on a boat, all rendered in black and gold hiramaki-e and nashiji on the black roiro ground, some details in raden (mother of pearl) inlays, 6.8cm.