EDO-MEIJI PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

Decorated en suite with basket-weave outer surfaces applied in high relief with gold, silver and colored lacquer and mother-of-pearl leaves and vines with seed pods, on the writing box, and with fruiting gourds on the stationery box, the twisting stems and leaves continued on the lower exteriors, the lacquer designed to simulate pewter and enameled metal; the writing box decorated in gold and pewter colored lacquer on the underside of the lid with grasses and the full moon on a shiny brownish black ground and the lower box fitted with a rectangular inkstone and lozenge-form water dropper in a copper saucer; the stationery box applied on the interior with brownish black lacquer, rims and bases of both boxes matching black
Writing box 10¹⁄₈ x 7³⁄₈ x 2 in. (25.7 x 19.5 x 5.1 cm); stationery box 15⁷⁄₈ x 11⁵⁄₈ x 4⁵⁄₈ in. (40.4 x 29.5 x 11.8 cm)

Please note this lot contains abalone which requires an export permit.