A Nagasaki Hinged Box and a Red Lacquer Box
Edo Period (19th century) and Meiji Period (late 19th century)
The rectangular copper box with angled corners decorated with finely cut mother-of-pearl inlaid into a black lacquer ground with a peacock and peahen beneath flowering branches, black lacquer interior; the rectangular box carved in high and low relief and decorated overall in red lacquer with two panels inlaid in mother-of-pearl and ivory with floral displays on a fundame ground
14 x 8.7cm. and 34.8 x 26.8cm. respectively (2)
A Nagasaki Hinged Box and a Red Lacquer Box
Edo Period (19th century) and Meiji Period (late 19th century)
The rectangular copper box with angled corners decorated with finely cut mother-of-pearl inlaid into a black lacquer ground with a peacock and peahen beneath flowering branches, black lacquer interior; the rectangular box carved in high and low relief and decorated overall in red lacquer with two panels inlaid in mother-of-pearl and ivory with floral displays on a fundame ground
14 x 8.7cm. and 34.8 x 26.8cm. respectively (2)
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