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The rounded conical body is resist-decorated on the interior with paper-cut decoration of three roundels, each formed by a pair of confronted phoenix, all reserved in dark brown against the variegated, milky buff ground, and the exterior is covered in a 'tortoiseshell' glaze of dark brown color mottled in beige falling short of a knife-cut edge above the low, narrow foot ring.

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412 in. (11.5 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box
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