Oval, the cover, sides and base in laque burgautée decorated with Japanese-style gold lacquer motifs featuring on the cover Fukurokuju, The God of Longevity, seating underneath a chrysanthemum tree holding an amber staff and a mother-of-pearl peach, the rim with spray of flowers, the sides decorated with various dress apparels and the underside with child picking a mother-of-pearl peach, the gold-mounts chased with geometrical motifs, marked on flange: charge, date-letter (R), maker's mark and décharge, with later purple velvet fitted case
3⁵⁄₈ (9.2 cm.) long
gross weight 4 oz. 11 dwt. (142 gr.)

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Fukurokuju is the God of Longevity, one of the Seven Gods of Luck in Japanese mythology and he holds the Peach of Immortality from the garden of Xiwangmu. Peaches in Japanese culture are thought to rid of misfortune and evil.
The decoration combines somada lacquer with the abalone shell speckles inlaid flush to the surface with taka-maki-e motifs.