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Lot 475
Sale 1015 - Strong Diversions: Property from a Lifetime of Play
Mar 28, 2022
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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Estimate
$800 -
1,200
Price Realized
$1,375
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
A Japanese Shell Inlaid Black Lacquer Four-Case Inro
19TH CENTURY
the slender inro inlaid with shell decoration depicting a continuous landscape scene with figures, against on a roiro ground, the top and underside decorated with shell inlaid diaper patterns, the interior of black lacquer, together with a silver and gold decorated metal melon-form ojime, and a carved boxwood netsuke with a demon's face.
Length 3 3/4 in., 9.3 cm.
Property from The Strong National Museum of Play, sold to benefit the Collections Fund