A RARE JAPANESE GOLD AND RED LACQUER THREE-CASE INRO

A RARE JAPANESE GOLD AND RED LACQUER THREE-CASE INRO

MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY

The flattened circular body richly decorated to each side with the Shochikubai (the Three Friends of Winter), with branches of pine, flowering prunus, and bamboo sprays rendered in gold and silver takamaki-e, hiramaki-e and kirikane on the deep red ground, together with a rock crystal ojime and a kiri box, 7.2cm. (2)

Provenance: an English private collection, Somerset.