A large Satsuma four-case inrō. Around 1850/1880

A large Satsuma four-case inrō. Around 1850/1880 Signed Seitōzan 精陶山 with seal in iron red and Shimazu mon in overglaze blue Of wide shape, decorated with lobed panels filled with two playful shishi and two confronting phoenixes with a tasseled cord in their beaks, surrounded by fruit-bearing scrolls on a blue ground, enameled in blue, with touches of iron-red and turquoise-green and with extensive gilding over a transparent finely crackled glaze. Tiny negligible chip to the edge of one case. Along with faceted ojime glazed in iron-red and signed Eiraku in underglaze-blue. Height 9.6 cm; width 8.8 cm

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