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THREE FOUR-CASE LACQUER INRO
The third by Koma Sozan, Edo period
(19th century)
The first black lacquer and carved with two
panels of scholars in a landscape in sunken
relief, the top and bottom cases with swirling
clouds and crashing waves, fitted with a
mixed-metal bead ojime with blossoming
autumn plants and a stag-antler netsuke of a
mouse and chestnuts; the second decorated
with a crane and pine, bamboo and plum
(the “Three Friends of Winter”) in gold, silver
and red takamaki-e on a black ground, black
lacquer interiors, with a glass bead ojime and
a pressed horn netsuke of a nio with prayer
beads and a vajra clutched in his teeth; the
third of rounded-rectangular form, decorated
with writing implements and a fan next to
a craggy rock and chrysanthemums afloat
on a river winding through hills in bloom,
the moon in the distance in gold and silver
takamaki-e, hiramaki-e and togidashi maki-e
on a roiro ground highlighted with hirame
and aogai inlays, nashiji interiors, signed
Koma Sozan saku, fitted with an agate bead
ojime and a manju netsuke decorated with
chrysanthemums in two shades of gold
takamaki-e against a gold nashiji ground
3 1/4in (8.3cm) high (the largest)
$1,500 - 2,000

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A BLACK-LACQUER INRO AND A
WOOD INRO
The first by Zonsei, Edo period
(18th/19th century)
The first with three cases and carved in
relief with two panels of scholars by a
bamboo grove and conversing in a Chinese-
style pavilion, the top and bottom cases
with stylized dragons in clouds, signed on
the cord-runner Zonsei saku, fitted with an
amber bead ojime; the second a dark wood
slender three-case inro carved with an
overall design of gibbons reaching for the
reflection of the crescent moon, fitted with a
wood ojime carved as a monkey, eyes inlaid
in dark horn and a dark wood manju-style
netsuke carved with a Chinese boy below a
pine tree in sunken relief
2 7/8in (7.3cm) high (the first); 3 3/8in (8.5cm)
high (the second)
$2,000 - 3,000

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