326 - TWO JAPANESE LACQUER INROS

TWO JAPANESE LACQUER INROS ONE SIGNED KAJIKAWA SAKU AND SEALED EI, THE OTHER UNSIGNED, EDO-MEIJI PERIOD 江戶至明治 ‘梶川作’（壷印）款 金漆家禽紋五層印籠 及 山水圖四層印籠（共兩件）one five-case inro decorated in hiramaki-e and takamaki-e depicting chicks with hen on one side, the reverse a cockerel popping through a thick bunch of hay, the base signed ‘Kajikawa saku’, further painted with a red pot seal, Ei; together with one four-case inro decorated with landscape on both sides, unsigned (2) lengths: 9.5cm and 8.5cm Private Scottish collection, West Lothian; inherited from the current owner’s grandparents蘇格蘭私人收藏，西洛錫安；繼承自現任藏家之祖父母。 Compare to a five-case lacquer inro, painted with a scene of a Japanese folklore kitsune no onabake, Edo period, similarly signed Kajikawa Saku and painted with a red pot, sold at Christie's New York, 21 Mar 2023, lot 49; Also see a black lacquer five-case inro, painted on one side with two bears, signed Kajikawa saku with a red pot seal Ei, made By a member of the Kajikawa family, 19th century, sold at Bonhams London, 5 November 2014, lot 131.