A FOUR-CASE LACQUER INRÔ WITH FIVE SHISHIS

Description:

Japan, 19th ct.
9,8 x 4,8 cm
Decorated with a mother shishi pushing her siblings down a cliff, the animals and pine trees in black lacquer in a landscape rendered in takamaki-e and hiramaki-e, with a metal ojime in form of a tsubo, signed, Japan, 19th ct.
From a Berlin private collection, assembled prior to 2000
Minor wear, cases can't be opened, partly slightly chipped