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A large Momoyama lacquer rectangular domed coffer
with iron carrying handles, decorated in hiramakie, takamakie, scattered nashiji and sprinkled aogai with a shaped cartouche depicting figures in a boat among waves below a bridge leading to a riverbank, the foreground with a shrine beside fences and flowers below clouds, on a ground of sprinkled aogai and floral borders, the front panel with two figures at a shrine entrance before a further shrine, the sides and back with butterflies among fences and flowers -- 35.in (89cm) wide, early 17th Century.
with iron carrying handles, decorated in hiramakie, takamakie, scattered nashiji and sprinkled aogai with a shaped cartouche depicting figures in a boat among waves below a bridge leading to a riverbank, the foreground with a shrine beside fences and flowers below clouds, on a ground of sprinkled aogai and floral borders, the front panel with two figures at a shrine entrance before a further shrine, the sides and back with butterflies among fences and flowers -- 35.in (89cm) wide, early 17th Century.