Of rounded rectangular profile with applied cord-runners, decorated in gold and colored red, black, yellow, grey and orange, hiramaki-e and takamaki-e against gold hirame on a black lacquer ground, depicting a coquerel and two chicks and on the back a barn surrounded by trees, the interior gold nashiji, signed Kajikawa Hidetaka under the bottom. In very good conditions, very minor wears on the surface, ojime missing.8 cm high, 4,5 cm wideA BLACK LACQUER FOUR-CASE INRO SIGNED KAJIKAWA HIDETAKA, JAPAN, EDO PERIOD (1603-1868), 19TH CENTURYProvenance: from the private collection of an important Italian ambassador and thence by descent