A Japanese gold lacquer shell-shaped box and cover decorated with cranes in flight -- 4¼.in.wide, signed; two red lacquer circular boxes and covers decorated with birds among foliage -- 3.in.diam max; a black lacquer circular box and cover decorated with prunus branches -- 3¾.in.diam; a coconut-shell pierced box and cover; four small coconut-shell bowls; three red lacquer circular dishes; and a red lacquer box and cover modelled as a melon and carved with insects among foliage -- 6.in.wide. (9)