Project Description

Three-case Lacquered and Inlaid Tagayasan Wood Inro

The rosewood inro inlaid on each side with a pair of oshidori (mandarin ducks), emblematic of conjugal fidelity, in shell with eyes and beaks of different materials, on a river bank, the reeds and bank in gold takamakie with kirigane, the water indicated by hiramakie

Unsigned. Circa 1850

8.8 cm

MR4786