Inro with Autumnal Grasses and Flowers, with Netsuke and Ojime

19th century (Edo; Meiji)

5 cm 7.4 cm 2.5 cm

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A saya standard (oblong) gold lacquer four compartment inro in a sheath. The sheath with a "hanabishi" pattern. Both sides of the compartments decorated with autumn flowers and grasses - Chinese bellflower ("kikyo"), chrysanthemum ("kiku"), pampass grass, yarrow, hibiscus, and...

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Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1878; William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1878, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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