The decoration on the bottom of the box finally demonstrates the influence of an important aspect of Japanese art, which is the elaborating of an unrevealed part of an object, a practice which reoccurred extensively in early Lalique jewelry and objets d'art.

cf. Felix Marcilhac, R. Lalique, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de verre, Les éditions de l'Amateur, Paris p.223, no.4; René Lalique exhibition catalogue, Odakyu Museum, Tokyo, 28 July-15 August 1993, p.157