19TH CENTURY
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A roironuri and gold lacquer box and cover
19th Century
The cover on a roironuri ground decorated in togidashi, gold hiramakie and aogai inlay, modelled as fireflies in a cage, the cover lifting to reveal the box on a togidashi ground in iroe hiramakie with figures by a riverbank and in a boat, some chasing fireflies, nashiji interiors, borders of the "cage" with scrolling foliage
8.2cm. high
19th Century
The cover on a roironuri ground decorated in togidashi, gold hiramakie and aogai inlay, modelled as fireflies in a cage, the cover lifting to reveal the box on a togidashi ground in iroe hiramakie with figures by a riverbank and in a boat, some chasing fireflies, nashiji interiors, borders of the "cage" with scrolling foliage
8.2cm. high