A HEXAGONAL GOLD GROUND LACQUER BOX AND COVER on short shaped feet, the sides with panels decorated in Shibayama style with flowers and hanging flower baskets of wisteria, peonies, lilies, nanten, chrysanthmums, lotus, magnolia, hydrangea, clamatis and others, the border decorated in gold hiramakie with scrolling foliage, the shoulder in silver togidashi with flowerheads and karakusa, the base and the interior in nashiji (slight old damage), late 19th century