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A drop-fronted cabinet with silver fittings raised on an integral stand. The front removes to reveal four drawers, each containing a removable tray. The trays divided vertically into three sections, each holding inro, and further divided horizontally to separate the inro from the netsuke. The front of the cabinet depicts an inro decorated with a sambaso dancer performing on a stage, with a pine in the background, complete with an ojime and a netsuke in relief in the form of a duck, in gold, black, and red hiramakie and takamakie, kinji, and inlaid hardstone on a roiro ground, with a fundame border. The drawer-fronts of roiro with fundame borders, the inner trays edged with brown lacquer. The cabinet contains twelve inro, each representing one of the twelve animals of the Zodiac, together with a spherical ojime of amber-coloured hardstone and a manju netsuke with the corresponding animal.
The Khalili Collections
London
Title
Cabinet of Twelve Inro
Date
1875–1900
Accession number
56
Work type
Sculpture