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THE PROPERTY OF A LONDON COLLECTOR
A LACQUER CHABAKO [TEA CEREMONY UTENSILS BOX]
EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)
The rectangular box with angled corners, with the flush-fitting cover and an inner tray, the black lacquer ground decorated in gold and silver hiramaki-e [low relief lacquer], togidashi [sprinkled designs revealed by polishing], kirikane [cut out pieces of gold leaf]and gradational nashiji [sprinkled gold lacquer] with a pine tree, the fitted inner tray with a branch of persimmon in gold and red takamaki-e [high relief lacquer], the interior in sparse nashiji, fundame [dull gold lacquer ground] rims
16 cm. wide

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