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504
STYLE OF OGAWA HARITSU (1663-1747)
A two-case inlaid lacquer inro
Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century
Decorated with two recessed panels, the
obverse with an elaborate incense burner
in the form of a lotus flower and a nyoi
(Buddhist priest’s scepter), the reverse with
a six-character inscription, all in colored
ceramic inlays and silver and red takamaki-e
against a reddish brown ground, the
surrounding areas rogin-nuri, with signature
Rituso and bearing an inlaid ceramic seal
Kan, the interior cases nashiji; fitted with a
carved lacquer bead ojime and a lacquered
wood netsuke of a hossu (Buddhist ritual fly
whisk) bearing an illegible seal
2 3/8in (5.5cm) high

US$2,000-3,000
504 (two views) For a closely related inro formerly in the Elly
Nordskog Collection, see Sydney L. Moss,
Ltd, They are all fire and every one doth
shine, London: Sydney L. Moss, 2010, no. 5

505
STYLE OF OGAWA HARITSU (1663-1747)
A three-case inlaid lacquer inro
Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century
Bearing a roiro-nuri ground, decorated in
inlays of painted ceramic, mother-of-pearl,
and pewter and gold hiramaki-e with a
stag and bracken ferns and grasses, with
a red-lacquer seal Kan; fitted with a glass
bead ojime and a stag-antler netsuke carved
as a stag
2 5/8in (6.7cm) high
$2,000 - 3,000

505 (two views)

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