Lot 512 Dα

A lacquer lidded box. 19th century

Of rectangular shape with a tray inside, on four low and lobed feet, the lid carved with a pattern of folded paper, decorated with nandina bushes by a stream and two family crests (kuginiki-mon and kikko-mon) in gold and silver takamakie and hiramakie with a little kirikane on a dense nashiji ground, the nandina berries of gilt and silvered metal. Nashiji to the inside. A few traces of use inside.
Height 13.1 cm; width 20.5 cm; length 26.5 cm