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A LACQUER WRITING BOX (SUZURIBAKO)
edo perod (early 19th century)
Of rectangular shape with canted corners and raised on four bracket feet, decorated on the exterior in mokume togidashi and on the lid with a recessed panel of peonies on a roiro and hirame ground, the blossoms rendered in gold foil or in gold and silver maki-e, and the foliage fundame, the underside of the lid designed with a shishi and brocade ball in iro-e togidashi on a roiro-nuri ground, the lower compartment roiro and nashiji, the base with bracket supports black lacquer with gold hiramaki-e scroll; fitted with a silver butterfly mizuire and round inkstone--10 7/8 x 7½ x 3 3/8in. (27.7 x 19 x 8.6cm.)
edo perod (early 19th century)
Of rectangular shape with canted corners and raised on four bracket feet, decorated on the exterior in mokume togidashi and on the lid with a recessed panel of peonies on a roiro and hirame ground, the blossoms rendered in gold foil or in gold and silver maki-e, and the foliage fundame, the underside of the lid designed with a shishi and brocade ball in iro-e togidashi on a roiro-nuri ground, the lower compartment roiro and nashiji, the base with bracket supports black lacquer with gold hiramaki-e scroll; fitted with a silver butterfly mizuire and round inkstone--10 7/8 x 7½ x 3 3/8in. (27.7 x 19 x 8.6cm.)