AN UNUSUAL JAPANESE GOLD AND BLACK LACQUER INRO EDO OR MEIJI, 19TH CENTURY The wide rectangular body decorated with a traveller resting at the foot of Mount Fuji, the mountain towering above clouds rendered in gold and silver lacquer, the reverse with a forest of pines, a metal tube underneath for the cord and a ring above, 7.5cm. Provenance: an English private collection, Somerset, purchased in Japan.