Y  A Japanese Three-Case Japanese Inro , of slender section decorated on the sparse nashiji ground with an ikebana arrangement of a budding plant in a chinkinbori decorated bronze vessel, the reverse with a battledore and a dried salmon, all in tones of silver and gold hiramakie and takamakie with gold foil details, signed to the base, Early 19th Century; with coral Ojime and Netsuke formed from a silver-mounted fragment of coral branch   Provenance: formerly from a private collection, purchased in Tokyo in the 1940s and by descent from Californian estate         Condition Report: Chip to lower edge of bottom case, some scratches, minor chips to edges, losses of gold foil