Keywords: Baitaden Kyoju - Inro with Crickets Among Basketwork Fragments, and Netsuke - Walters 67200.jpg A five part gold and black lacquer standard inro The exterior of the compartments are decorated with stylized ferns shida The sheath with fragmentary basketwork of bamboo and two crickets suzumushi one on each side The design on the compartments in gold togidashi on a roiro background The design on the sheath in gold hiramakie of two different shades on a roiro background with uju nashiji The crickets are of silver metal in high relief The interior is in roiro and fundame The interior of the cases in black lacquer The cord channels are external Together with a porcelain netsuke of Fukurokuju the God of Good Fortune decorated with red blue yellow and black overglaze enamels 1st half Other date century 19 Edo lacquer silver porcelain with overglaze enamels stone inro cm 7 6 4 6 2 2 accession number 67 200 28086 William T / Henry Walters Collection Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T or Henry Walters Signature Kakosai none Netsuke Miniature Sculpture of Japan place of origin Japan Walters Art Museum license Netsuke Miniature Sculpture of Japan Inro in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist review Insects in art Fukurokuju Amulets |