Close-Up: Ho-Ho Bird Inro with metal ojime

Close-Up Reverse: Ho-Ho Bird Inro with metal ojime

Close-Up Base: Ho-Ho Bird Inro

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Ho-Ho Bird Inro

 

Kajikawa saku four case inro.

L19

Gold lacquer four case inro decorated on the kinji ground with a ho-ho bird perched on a flowering cherry branch, the reverse similarly decorated with its mate beside a stream.

Signed: Kajikawa saku
Provenance: Eskenazi
Dimensions: 9.5cm long x 5cm wide

Ojime: Metal with raised birds on a branch.

Netsuke: Kagamibuta, the gold lacquer bowl bearing a metal plate, inlaid with birds and flowers.  (NL19)

Japan, 19th century
Signed: Unsigned

 
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