A JAPANESE BLACK AND GILT-LACQUER CABINET
MEIJI PERIOD, LATE 19TH CENTURY
With an arrangement of open shelves, cupboards and drawers on shaped legs, overall decorated with landscape scenes of birds, butterflies and cherry blossoms, enriched with gilt borders and further flowers in polychrome lacquers, the cupboard doors with metal fittings, decorated with children playing in a landscape against a gilt ground, the shaped cornice with five gilt flying cranes
79 in. (200.7 cm.) high, 32 in. (81.5 cm.) wide, 18 in. (45.8 cm.) deep
A JAPANESE BLACK AND GILT-LACQUER CABINET
MEIJI PERIOD, LATE 19TH CENTURY
With an arrangement of open shelves, cupboards and drawers on shaped legs, overall decorated with landscape scenes of birds, butterflies and cherry blossoms, enriched with gilt borders and further flowers in polychrome lacquers, the cupboard doors with metal fittings, decorated with children playing in a landscape against a gilt ground, the shaped cornice with five gilt flying cranes
79 in. (200.7 cm.) high, 32 in. (81.5 cm.) wide, 18 in. (45.8 cm.) deep