A LARGE JAPANESE LACQUER FOOD BOX

A LARGE JAPANESE LACQUER FOOD BOX, JUBAKO

EDO PERIOD OR LATER, 19TH CENTURY

The five-tiered rectangular box and lid decorated in gold and black lacquer with a continuous design in hiramaki-e, takamaki-e and nashiji of a congregation of egrets in a river landscape, the birds flying over pines and paddling in a meandering stream, the inside in red lacquer, 56cm x 32cm x 33.3cm. (6)

Provenance: from a deceased estate, Hampshire.