Gold and black lacquer four-case Inro, Meiji period, 19th century, by Torigoe, of wide form the nashiji ground lacquered and inlaid with five horses, the interior of nashiji, signed, with ojime and boxwood netsuke depicting a man with his fundoshi caught in a large clam shell, height 6.3 cm width 7 cm. Provenance: collection of Josef Neumann, Lawsons, Sydney, 27 and 28 April 1999