A gold-lacquer and inlaid four-case inro By Toha, 19th century The somewhat flattened vertical rectangular body with a rogin-nuri ground decorated with a sarumawashi (monkey trainer) moving a rope curtain aside with his stick as he walks with his performing monkey on his back, lacquered in gold and slight coloured takamaki-e and inlaid with shell, the interior of nashiji with kinji edges; signed Toha saku. 7.9cm (3 1/8in). Footnotes: リザーブ設定無し 猿回図蒔絵螺鈿印籠　銘「東巴作」　19世紀 Provenance: Col. Harris collection, purchased from Douglas J. K. Wright, London, 1977. Wrangham collection, no.1364. Published: E. A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists, 1995, p.292, Toha, left. The Edward Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art: Part IV, lot 248. www.bonhams.com/auctions/20493/lot/248/ Lot to be sold without reserve. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com