A JAPANESE LACQUER INRŌ WITH CHRYSANTHEMUM

A JAPANESE FIVE-CASE LACQUER INRŌ
MEIJI ERA, 19TH/20TH CENTURY

Decorated with twenty-petalled chrysanthemum mon, the family crests rendered in gold hiramaki-e lacquer on the black roiro ground, with kotobuki characters to the sides, signed Inagawa saku to the base with a red-jar Nakaharu seal, 9.5cm.

Provenance: by repute purchased from Sydney L Moss, London.