A FIVE-CASE LACQUER INRO WITH NETSUKE EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY), NETSUKE SIGNED KAJIKAWA SAKU

A FIVE-CASE LACQUER INRO WITH NETSUKE
EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY), NETSUKE SIGNED KAJIKAWA SAKU
Decorated in gold, brown and silver hiramaki-e, takamaki-e and nashiji with biwa, bag, cane with scroll, fishing rod, baton, straw bag, hammer and fan representing the Seven God of Fortune (shichifukujin), the netsuke decorated with chrysanthemum
3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm.) high

Provenance
Walter Lionel Behrens Collection, Paris
Glendening and Co., Auction, 15 December 1947
Private collection assembled by the current owner’s great-grandfather, thence by descent