TWO LACQUER INRO

Description:

Japan, 18th ct.
8,2 x 5,6 cm /6,3 x 5,2 cm
Both decorated in maki-e on a black lacquer ground. a) Five cases, with two mooring boats and a heron sitting on an upright oar. b) Four cases, with a cicada and bamboo.
North German private collection, recorded before 1984
Partly traces iof use, the other with loss to aogai inlays