A gold lacquer square tray

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A gold lacquer square tray
with short flaring rim, decorated in hiramakie and iroe hiramakie with pine, blossoming peonies, and irises beside a stream on a nashiji ground -- 4¼in. (10.8cm) wide; a brown lacquer square box and cover decorated in relief with a stylised ho-o in flight -- 2½in. (6.4cm) wide; an ivory netsuke of a recumbent puppy on a mat -- 1¼in. (3.2cm) wide; another of a mokugyo bell -- 1.3/8in. (3.5cm) wide; another of a snake coiled on a straw hat -- 1¾in. (4.5cm) diam.; a marine ivory netsuke of two standing figures -- 1¾in. (4.5cm) high; a wood netsuke of two rats on a rice bale -- 1½in. (3.8cm) long; and a gold lacquered shell netsuke applied with kiku heads -- 1.3/8in. (3.5cm) wide. (8)

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