A JAPANESE LACQUER DOCUMENT BOX AND COVER

A JAPANESE LACQUER DOCUMENT BOX AND COVER, RYOSHIBAKO

EDO PERIOD OR LATER, 19TH CENTURY

Of rectangular form, decorated in hiramaki-e, nashiji and gold and silver takamaki-e, the lid with two beauties playing hanetsuki (Japanese battledore) and with pine, bamboo and flowering prunus around them, Mount Fuji and a village of thatched buildings visible in the background, the reverse with two carps in a stream, the sides of the box with a band of key fret and scrolling tendrils, together with an inner tray, kakego, 14cm x 26.5cm x 35cm. (3)