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A Rare Lacquered Copper Tobacco Box Depicting the Olympian Gods
Kyoto, Edo period (early 19th century)
The rectangular box and hinged cover inlaid in mother-of-pearl and decorated in sprinkled gold lacquer and silver hiramaki-e [low-relief lacquer] with a design of the Olympian Gods gathered around Zeus, underneath the image is an inscription L'Olympe, the sides with flower sprays similarly inlaid
13.4 x 8.5 x 2.5cm.

Published
Oliver Impey and Christiaan Jorg, Japanese Export Lacquer (1580-1850), (Amsterdam, 2005), p. 62 (this box is mentioned in the text)
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Only three examples of this type of tobacco box with mythical scenes from Classical Antiquity are known to exist, of which this is one. The second, in the Kobe City Museum depicts Venus and Cupid and the third shows Neptune in his chariot and Juno on a cloud. This type of Japanese-made tobacco box would have been made to order by one of the Dutch employees working on the island of Deshima during this period. The gods shown on this box are (clockwise from the top):

Zeus
Demeter
Athena
Apollo
Artemis
Poseidon
Hermes
Eros
Aphrodite
Ares
Hera

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