Lot 147: * A SMALL GOLD-LACQUER FOUR-CASE INRO By Nakayama Komin (1808-1870), mid-la

* A SMALL GOLD-LACQUER FOUR-CASE INRO By Nakayama Komin (1808-1870), mid-late 19th century Of upright form, bearing a rich kinji ground, lacquered with a continuous scene of a crane flying over a pine-clad rock while a minogame (long-tailed tortoise) climbs onto a smaller rock amid swirling water, in gold takamaki-e with highlights of e-nashiji, the interior of nashiji, signed Hokkyo Komin with a kao; with an amber ojime; and a stag antler manju netsuke in the form of a chrysanthemum, carved on the top with a paulownia crest. 7.6cm (3in) high.