Inro with lilies Inro with Yoritomo and cranes, peach-shaped nestuke, ojime, Box of gold lacquer, consisting of five parts, with a representation in inlaid ivory and gold leaf (kirikane), nashiji, and different colors of gold hira and taka makie, of figures and cranes in a landscape with a pine tree on the coast. Minamoto no Yoritomo makes cranes fly on the coast near Kamakura, accompanied by a clerk holding a parasol above his head, to another clerk with his sword in hand and a companion, on the other side a man with a cage looking at five cranes flying away over the water. Netsuke in
Inro with lilies Inro with Yoritomo and cranes, peach-shaped nestuke, ojime, Box of gold lacquer, consisting of five parts, with a representation in inlaid ivory and gold leaf (kirikane), nashiji, and different colors of gold hira and taka makie, of figures and cranes in a landscape with a pine tree on the coast. Minamoto no Yoritomo makes cranes fly on the coast near Kamakura, accompanied by a clerk holding a parasol above his head, to another clerk with his sword in hand and a companion, on the other side a man with a cage looking at five cranes flying away over the water. Netsuke in the shape of a peach with leaves in gold lacquer with nashiji and a spherical ojime of gold lacquer., Shokasai Shibayama, Japan, c. 1800 - c. 1825, mother of pearl, wood (plant material), lacquer (coating), gilding (material), gilding, h cm × w cm × d 2 cm
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