A Japanese wood and lacquered suzuribako onlaid in mother-of-pearl, tortoiseshell, ivory and hardstones with two quail standing below millet, a band of fruiting gourds to the rim, the interior with two butterflies in flight above a clump of flowers and grasses on a mura-nashiji ground, the interior fitted with an inkstone (warped, chipped, cracked, inlay missing) -- 9½in.long.