The Mike and Hiroko Dean Collection

A THREE-CASE LACQUER INRO
WITH SIGNATURE HANZAN, EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
Decorated in gold, silver and red takamaki-e on a transparent brown lacquer ground, revealing the grain of the cedar-wood beneath, with Buddhist objects comprising fly whisk, censer and rosary inlaid with malachite and mother-of-pearl, interiors and risers unlacquered, fundame rims, with a cloisonné enamelled ojime
2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm.) long

Literature:
Mike Dean et. al., Nihon no Shikki, Japanese Lacquer - an Exposition by M & H Dean, (Kyoto, 1984), no. 100.

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