A shibayama style hardwood box and cover

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A shibayama style hardwood box and cover
modelled as a drum on a stand decorated in gold lacquer and inset in mother-of-pearl, horn and tortoiseshell with trailing vines, a Tomoe Gozen mon to either end in mother-of-pearl, an ivory cockerel perched on top forming the finial -- 5in. (14.6cm) high, 19th Century, (minor rubbing).See Illustration

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