A four-case lacquer inro, in roiro takamakie on a roiro ground, the single visible fan in gold maki-e, decorated with a single snake coiled over the sides, chasing numerous frogs; en suite with a manju netsuke decorated with a snail and grasses worked in gold takamakie on a roiro groud, signed Unryuan. Height 8.8 cm. Width 5.7 cm original wood box. Provenance: catalogue No. 4, the snake (April), reference books and auction catalogues