Group of six assorted inro


Edo period (1651-1868), 19th centuryComprising: a two-case wood inro decorated in ceramic inlay and gold and silver hiramaki-e with a frog and a spider in a web and a poem, with two red seals; an unusual cylindrical three-case lacquer inro decorated with a spider in a web in stalks of bamboo in gold takamaki-e and black hiramaki-e, the interior cases nashiji; a four-case lacquer inro decorated in gold and silver takamaki-e and togidashi-e with highlights of hirame and kinpun with a figure nodding off by a stream in the landscape, nashiji interiors; a four-case lacquer inro decorated in gold and silver takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, hirame, and e-nashiji with a rocky landscape and crashing waterfall; a four-case lacquer inro decorated in gold hiramaki-e on a roiro-nuri ground with a landscape and a bridge, with nashiji interiors, signed Yoyusai and with a kao; a three-case lacquer inro decorated in iro-e takamaki-e and hirame on a red-lacquer ground with a rabbit riding a fox, pursued by a monkey riding a stag, the interiors nashiji (6) 4 3/4in (12.1cm) high, the largest