Tortoiseshell-shaped inrō with two compartments, with carneol crystal ojime and tortoiseshell-shaped netsuke

Japanese Collection

Accession Nr.: 53.381.1-3
Type: object for daily use
Date of production:
Mid-19th century
Edo (Tokugawa) period or Meiji era
Place of production:
Signed: Signed, unclear
Materials/Techniques: wood, lacquer, carneol crystal
Dimensions: Inrō height: 8.6 cm; kagamibuta D: 3.6 cm; ojime D: 1.5 cm
Purchased in the early 1930s at Réti's Art Gallery in Budapest (HMI_227/1953)
Cseh, Éva, Netsuke: Japanese miniature carvings. Budapest, Hopp Ferenc Kelet-Ázsiai Művészeti Múzeum, 2001, 369.