Unsigned lacquer Kogo.

L42

A small circular black lacquer Kogo decorated with three flying insects, in mottled brown takamakie, on a roiro ground. The interior finely decorated with a mass of autumn flowers in gold and silver togidashi.

Japan, 19th century
Dimensions: 6.4cm diameter x 1.8cm.
Signed: Unsigned.
Provenance: Sotheby's 1974
Published: Item 363 'In Search of Netsuke and Inro' by George A. Cohen.