Japanese Sagemono Inro box with a maki-e decor of a Samuari in a lake landscape

Inrō with four gold lacquer compartments, decorated with a lake landscape. Accompanied by a bronze ryusa manju. Small boxes formed of compartments that fit one on top of the other, i...

Rectangular bundai writing table on four legs in gold lacquer with black highlights on a nashi-ji background. The top is decorated with a lake landscape with plum trees, pine trees a...

Inro with four gold lacquer boxes, decorated with a lake landscape. Accompanied by a bronze ryusa manju. Small boxes formed of compartments that fit one on top of the other, inro (? ?) are traditional Japanese clothing...

Rectangular kobako box in takamaki-e and kirigane gold lacquer circled with pewter depicting a lake landscape. Inside and back of the box in nashi-ji lacquer. Japan – Edo period (16...

A lacquered 4-piece inrô with a covering design of fireflies (hotaru) flying over helms of grass and around a lantern (andon), shining attractively for the fireflies. Surrounded by rims embellished with a scrolling vine design (karakusa). Executed in golden hiramaki-e (low-relief lacquer design) and takamaki-e (high-relief lacquer design) with small red accents on the wings and kirigane, (cut and inlaid pieces of gold leaf) at the tails of the fireflies to accentuate the ‘light’ they exude. Set on a glossy black lacquer background. The compartmentalized interior coated with nashiji (sprinkled gold lacquer)finished with fundame rims (matt gold lacquer). Laced with purple silk cords, with a brown glass bead ojime, and 2-part manjû netsuke...

A Japanese lacquer box with lid and an inner tray decorated with Maki-e on a dense nashiji background. The fine box was likely made circa 1920-30s...

An early Japanese lacquer Maki-e decorated kobako (small storage box) circa 18th century (Edo period). Based on its form and size, this kobako was possibly used as a Chabako to store the accoutrements for chado (tea ceremony). The lidded box is of rectangular form with bevel design on all edge that softens the appearance. The entire surface was densely covered with a background of nashiji. Elaborate Maki-e techniques were used on each side to showcase a distinct landscape or floral design within a cartouche panel. On the surface of the lid, a mountainous landscape rises from the edge of the water. The poetic composition is akin to a traditional ink scroll...

A rare Japanese lacquered wood fubako decorated in Kodaiji maki-e style circa early 17th century the beginning of the Edo period, possibly early toward the end of the Azuchi-Momoyama period. The rectangular, long and slim box features a deep lipped lid with slightly rounded corners, a conforming lower box with two bronze medallion rings with tasseled...