19TH CENTURY,

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A JAPANESE EXPORT MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID LACQUER WRITING BOX,
19TH CENTURY,
with rectangular hinged lid inlaid with masonic symbols, the interior with nashiji lacquer; on later stand
16in. (41cm.) high, 17½in. (44.5cm.) wide, 14½in. (37cm.) deep, overall

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Lot Essay

Other related Japanese export lacquer boxes with Masonic symbols, usually in the form of tobacco boxes, are illustrated in O. Impey and C. Jorg, Japanese Export Lacquer 1580-1850, Amsterdam, 2005, pp. 62-3. figs. 107-8.

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