Lot 221

JAPANESE COSMETIC BOX/KODANSU
EDO PERIOD







Fine & Decorative Furniture and Art
Auction: 30 September 2009 at 12:00 BST
£1,188
Description
the gold lacquer medallions with lions, birds, lizards, flowers and butterflies, all on a birch veneer ground interspersed with small gilt lacquer flowerheads, fine silver mounts and handles to the two drawers, internally decorated with gold lacquer dust, the top cover opening to reveal a black lacquered tray, the inside decorated with a censer with lilies, signed Morikawa Saku
Dimensions
33cm wide, 25.5cm high, 22 cm deep
Footnote
Provenance: the Henry and Sula Walton collection.






