A GOLD LACQUER CIRCULAR BOX, the top of the cover decorated in gold and iroe hiramakie and takamakie with an eagle and plum, two pheasants beneath wisteria and a peacock and a peahen by a pine tree in various shaped panels, the inside cover with yugao and dragonflies on nashiji ground, the box containing seven smaller circular boxes, each cover decorated with birds and flowers (slight old damage), late 18th/early 19th Century