An inlaid black-and-gold-lacquer two-case inro By Koma Kansai, after a design by Hon'ami Koetsu (1558-1637), Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century The black-lacquer ground decorated with rolling Rinpa-style waves, extending over the top and bottom, one side decorated with two barges laden with bundles of wheat, the hull of one inlaid in shell, the other in pewter, the reverse with another barge inlaid in pewter; signed in a rectangular reserve Koetsu no zu Kansai utsuru (A design by Koetsu recreated by Kansai). 6.6cm (2 5/8in) high. 注脚 Provenance: Formerly in a Belgian aristocratic collection, subsequently in the same family in France and England.