Project Description

Small Gold Lacquer 2-case Inro with the Shochikubai and Cranes

Probably for a child; decorated over the kinji ground with two cranes standing on one side,the so called Three Friends of Winter  (pine, bamboo and prunus) on the other, the pine tree with inlays of aogai (blue toned mother-of-pearl). Silver and shakudo ojime engraved with a flower

Signed beneath: Kajikawa saku. Circa 1900

Height 6cm

MR4606