A roironuri ground lacquer suzuribako

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A roironuri ground lacquer suzuribako
decorated in gold and silver hiramakie, takamakie and kimpun with puppies playing beside flowers and bamboo, the interior decorated in iroe hiramakie and kirigane on a hirame ground with a nightingale perched on a bonai of flowers, fitted with an inkstone and copper waterdropper modelled as a crane -- 9¾.in (23.5cm) long, signed Tatsuke shi Takahiro and a seal, 18th/19th Century, (old damage).
See Colour Plate 2.

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