Kanshosai (active late 18th century)


A fine four-case lacquer inroEdo period (1615-1868), late 18th centuryOf lenticular section and lacquered in gold, brown, black, and silver hiramaki-e and takamaki-e with aogai and hirame highlights against a roiro-nuri ground with a group of horses beneath a willow tree, the interior cases nashiji, signed Kanshosai and with a kao; fitted with a wood bead ojime and a wood kagamibuta netsuke, the rectangular shakudo nanako plate decorated with galloping horses in gold and shakudo takazogan 3 1/8in (7.9cm) long