AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED JAPANESE LACQUER CASKET, the lid and sides decorated with fishermen on lake Biwa in the manner of Shoami Masanari in gold and silver togidashi on a roironuri ground with nashiji interior, mounted with foliate ormolu borders and angles centred by birds, with lockplate and hasp, on paw feet, the lacquer late 18th early 19th Century, assembled in the early 19th Century, some of the mounts possibly second quarter 18th Century