Project Description
Soetsu style 3-case lacquer inro
Decorated over a worn roiro-nashiji ground with an oi? on one side and sutra scroll on the other beneath a vine, with inlaid elements of pewter and raden
Unsigned. Circa 1700
Height: 5.4 cm
The nashiji pleasingly worn. Some shell lost or replaced. Old restoration to top and bottom rims
Provenance:
Soame Jenyns Collection
Information:
An old label suggests that this was in the Behrens collection
MR2700
