A Yamamaki-e (black-on-black) lacquer three-case inro By Kajikawa Takafusa, 19th century The wide body with an ishime ground, lacquered in black low relief on either side with a dragon medallion on a ground of fragmented rinzu (textile-weave), the interior of matt black lacquer, signed Kajikawa Takafusa saku; with a small coral ojime. 8cm (3 1/8in) high. Footnotes: リザーブ設定無し 龍図闇蒔絵印籠　銘「梶川高房作」　19世紀 Provenance: W. W. Winkworth collection, purchased at Bonhams, London, 1981. Wrangham collection, no.1542. Published: E. A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists, Harehope, Northumberland, 1995, p.281, Takafusa, Kajikawa, left. The Edward Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art: Part V, lot 134. www.bonhams.com/auctions/20555/lot/134/ Lot to be sold without reserve. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com