Case (Inro) with Design of People Catching Fireflies, result 1 of 1

Japan

Case (Inro) with Design of People Catching Fireflies

Inrō

Inrō

19th century

Roiro (waxen) lacquer with decoration in togidashi sprinkled and polished lacquer and nashiji (pear-skin) lacquer; Interior: nashiji and fundame; Ojime: metal (zogan) inlay with spider; Netsuke: carved wood with stone inlay of snail on broken roof tile

Edo period (1615-1868)

3 x 1 7/8 x 1 1/8 in. (7.6 x 4.8 x 2.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936

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