four-antique-japanese-inros
Lot 78
Four Antique Japanese Inros
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
19th and early 20th century examples including two of carved wood, one as a five-stack lacquered box having blown gold lacquer interior with a signed ivory snake netsuke, and a woven pouch with lacquered clasp and carved double gourd netsuke.

Lacquered inro 4 in. tall

From the Collection of Keil Wurl, Raleigh, North Carolina

The lacquered stack inro with chips to lid and edge; one wooden inro missing netsuke; the other wood inro's netsuke with possible loss to one end; the double gourd netsuke missing screw-on lid.