A Japanese gold and brown lacquer rectangular two-tiered box and cover on four feet and silver rims, decorated in hiramakie, takamakie and scattered nashiji with butterflies in flight among flowering branches above riverbanks, the sides decorated with flowering chrysanthemum branches on a roironuri ground, the interior in nashiji to similate clouds -- 7¼in. wide.

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A Japanese gold and brown lacquer rectangular two-tiered box and cover on four feet and silver rims, decorated in hiramakie, takamakie and scattered nashiji with butterflies in flight among flowering branches above riverbanks, the sides decorated with flowering chrysanthemum branches on a roironuri ground, the interior in nashiji to similate clouds -- 7¼in. wide.

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