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Japanese boxwood nestuke in the form of a turtle hiding in its shell
Located in PARIS, FR
Netsuke in boxwood in the form of a tortoise hiding in its shell with only its head overstepping. Textures from the shell are executed with realism precision and a great care for details. Same goes for the scales of the skin of its legs. The central scale in the center of the shell is movable and enables the passing of a thread. In Japan, tortoise are symbol of luck and longevity, it is thought to be a creature of good omen supposed to bring 10 000 years of happiness. This animal is associated with numerous myths, the most popular dating back to the Nihon-Shoki, an antique tale of Japan and its dynasty. The legend of Urashima Taro...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Boxwood
Japanese bronze okimono toad (sculpture)
Located in PARIS, FR
Okimono bronze sculpture of a toad.
The toad or the frog (kaeru) is associated with good luck and wealth. Kaeru means both “toad” or “frog” and “to return home” in Japanese. This me...
Category
Mid-19th Century Japanese Japonisme Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Bronze okimono sculpture of a catfish or namazu
Located in PARIS, FR
Sculpture or okimono in bronze of a wavy catfish emerging from calm water, scales are not represented, and its expression of eyes and mouth could be considered naive. One other inter...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Seated Bronze Bouddha in Bhumisparsa mùdra, Mandalay, Burma, 19th c.
Located in PARIS, FR
Buddha sitting in Bhumisparsa mùdra (or earth witness mudra )
Buddha calls the goddess of the earth to testify that he has definitively overcome the fears and temptations sent by Mar...
Category
Late 19th Century Burmese Other Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Japanese bronze okimono or sculpture of a textured toad
Located in PARIS, FR
Okimono bronze sculpture of a toad.
The toad or the frog (kaeru) is associated with good luck and wealth. Kaeru means both “toad” or “frog” and “to return home” in Japanese. This me...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Japanese writting set in waqasa lacquer including bundai ryoshibako and fudebako
Located in PARIS, FR
Set of bundai, ryōshibako and fudebako in wakasa lacquer with an old rose background and black traditional Japanese patterns.
The saya pattern (or sayagata) is composed by Chinese svastikas. This symbol linked to Buddhism, mean intelligence, power and peace. It is a good omen sign.
The kanoko pattern reminds stains on fawn back.
The sakura (cherry blossom) pattern is emblematic of Japan. The blossoming in a short time marks spring beginning and is a symbol of renewal and ephemeral beauty.
There are also traces of calligraphy brush, in reference to the function of the objects.
Bundai is a low table used to put books or scrolls and, later, to write.
Rectangular ryōshibako (letter and document box) with a slightly domed
Fudebako (pencil case) of rectangular format very narrow in its length with two rounded corners, flat cover.
Wakasa lacquerware...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Lacquer
Bronze sculpture of an eagle on a tree stump, to be used as an incense burner
Located in PARIS, FR
This bronze sculpture represents a royal eagle standing on top of a tree stump. Its body and the stump were realized separately and mounted, the transition being right above the talo...
Category
Early 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Puppy Nestuke in boxwood
Located in PARIS, FR
Netsuke in boxwood representing a puppy with incrusted eyes made of buffalo horns. Its mouth is open, as if it was barking, it also wears a knotted collar and holds a ball between it...
Category
Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Boxwood
Bronze okimono sculpture of a standing hare
Located in PARIS, FR
Bronze sculpture with a gorgeous brown patina, that represents a standing hare, with one of its paws up. Its head is treated with great realism and the care in which parts like fur a...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Japanese lacquered Cherry Tree Kobako
Located in PARIS, FR
Kobako in nashiji lacquer of square shape with a hira maki-e décor of a blossoming
cherry tree. Both of the four sides are adorned with golden lacquer cherry flowers,
represented i...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Lacquer
Japanese Tiny bronze frog
Located in PARIS, FR
Adorable tiny bronze frog in cast bronze with a splendid brownish patina, almost
orange, lying on its rear legs, ready to jump. The casting of this bronze was very well
conducted, ...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Bronze sculpture representing a puppy lying down
Located in PARIS, FR
Bronze okimono sculpture with a deep brown patina, representing a lying puppy, probably of shiba inu breed. This kind of subject is common in traditional Nippon sculptures, this spec...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Japanese bronze sculpture of a ginseng root, ganodermas mushrooms growing on it
Located in PARIS, FR
Bronze sculpture representing a group of genoderma mushrooms developing on the long stem of a Ginseng root that is standing on two kakis. Logically this root would be Panax ginseng, ...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Kobako box in eggshell lacquer decorated with peonies and a butterfly
Located in PARIS, FR
Kobako in rankuku lacquer, also known as eggshell lacquer in Europe, decorated with peony flowers and a butterfly realized in maki-e lacquer. The butterfly (choho) in Japan, is perce...
Category
Early 20th Century Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Gold
Japanese okimono sculpture of a lying puppy with its head facing its rear
Located in PARIS, FR
Bronze okimono sculpture with a deep brown patina, of a lying puppy, probably of shiba inu breed, represented with its head facing its rear. This kind of subject is common in traditi...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Kobako box in the form of a furoshiki present in gold and black lacquer
Located in PARIS, FR
Rectangular and flat lacquer Kobako (small box) representing a furoshiki knot seen from above. Fundame background, furoshiki in takamaki-e with floral pattern, inside the folds of th...
Category
Late 18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Gold
Japanese Natsume or tea box adorned with mapple leaves and sakure flowers
Located in PARIS, FR
Natsume in dark red lacquer, decorated with autumn leaves and cherry blossoms in hiramaki-e and nashiji. Interior in black lacquer.
Maple leaves (Momiji) are celebrated in literature...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Gold
Japanese Bronze Vase decorated with a Phoenix and paulownia leaves
Located in PARIS, FR
Patinated bronze vase decorated with a flying phenix and paulownia leaves. The phoenix has imperial and solar symbolism. This bird of good omen also embodies virtues from the teaching of Confucius (such as goodness, righteousness, and wisdom). Paulownia (kiri) is considered as a symbol of nobility, honor and longevity. Since the Edo era, there has been a tradition that paulownia is planted at the birth of a daughter to be used later as a material for making items that will be part of her dowry. Its wood is ideal for chests and kimono boxes...
Category
20th Century Japanese Showa Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Chinese Red overlay glass snuff bottle depicting a fish, China, 19th century
Located in PARIS, FR
Red overlay glass snuff bottle depicting a fish, 19th century
A rare translucent glass snuffbox with small bubbles in the shape of a fish, ruby red overlay decor with a fish among th...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Cut Glass
Large terracotta Buddha head, Burma, Shan States, late 18th Century
Located in PARIS, FR
Large Buddha head in gilt-leaf terracotta with trace of red polychromy.
The Buddha must have been between 2.10m and 2.40m tall (if standing).
Headdressed with fine curls and Usnisha ...
Category
Late 18th Century Burmese Other Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Terracotta
Japanese Netsuke of a croaking Toad in boxwood
Located in PARIS, FR
Netsuke of a wooden toad with its throat swollen. Made entirely in boxwood, the skin is treated with detail, the naturalistic pause suggests that the toad is croaking, the smooth tex...
Category
Late 18th Century Japanese Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Boxwood
Japanese Screen "the Song of Everlasting Sorrow"
Located in PARIS, FR
Six-panels screen depicting the exit from the city of a Chinese emperor on horseback and his concubine in a luxurious palanquin.
It may be a scene illustrating the poem The Song of Everlasting Sorrow (Chang hen ge, ???) written by Bai Juyi (772-846), which recounts the tragic love story between the emperor Ming Huang (also known as Tang Xuanzong, 685-762) and his favorite concubine, the beautiful Yang Guifei...
Category
Late 17th Century Japanese Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Silk, Wood, Paper
Geisha Wig & Nô Theater 2 Mask
Located in Paris, FR
Mask Geisha Wig & Nô Theater 2, with real natural hair Geisha wig
on head model and with Nô Theater natural wood mask.
Base: 28,5x26,3cm.
Category
1950s Japanese Vintage Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Wood
Japanese Bundai or writting table in gold lacquer with a decor of lake landscape
Located in PARIS, FR
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...
Category
Early 18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Gold, Bronze
Japanese small round bronze hare Meiji era
Located in PARIS, FR
Small round hare in bronze with dark brown patina, standing on its four legs.
In Japanese, the hare and the rabbit are referred to by a single word: usagi. The animal is one of the t...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Japonisme Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Huge mouse lying down
Located in PARIS, FR
Huge sculpture of a mouse (or rat), with a rather dark patina, represented with a
schematic expression and realized with the hollow bronze technique. It is represented
in extension...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Japanese lacquer kobako or incens box decorated with two insects
Located in PARIS, FR
Small Kobako circular box in lacquered wood with a cicada and unidentified insect, probably a gryllotalpa orientalis, displayed on its top part.
The background is decorated in maki-...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Gold
Pair of japanese bronze vase imitating hay and decorated with a grass hopper
Located in PARIS, FR
Detailed pair of vases in bronze of baluster form, textured to represent straws of hay, bound together by three knots that divide each vase in three, just under le second ring, a well detailed grasshopper is detached from the rest of the composition.
Insects (mushi) occupy an important place in Japanese culture. Hunting for insects is a popular pastime, especially among children. Using plastic nets and cages, they catch cicadas and beetles to observe them.
Between 1830 and 1832, Hokusai composed an untitled series of ten large horizontal prints...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Netsuke in boxwood in the form of three clams
Located in PARIS, FR
Boxwood nestuke in the form of three clams or bivalve shells, probably of the Ruditapes philippinarum sub species that can be found all the way from Siberia to Philippines, and Japan...
Category
18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Boxwood
Fine Japanese Black and Gold Lacquer Sageju-Bako - Picnic Box
Located in PARIS, FR
Black and gold lacquer sageju-bako (picnic box) decorated with floral motifs in hiramaki-e. It includes a sake bottle, a four-compartment box with nashi-ji lacquer inside, a simple tray and a hollow tray. At the top, there is a bronze handle for transport.
The sageju-bako is divided into four superimposed boxes for food on the left; a simple tray, a sake bottle and a hollow tray on the right. They are in the shape of a plum blossom.
On the top, on both sides a phoenix. The phoenix (hôo) has an imperial and solar symbolism. This auspicious bird also embodies virtues taken from the teachings of Confucius (such as goodness, righteousness and wisdom).
The left boxes are patterned with turtles, plum tree, bamboo, cherry blossoms, water plantains near rivers. The two trays on the right have a shell and seaweed pattern. The sake bottle is decorated with a plum tree and bamboo.
On the sides, calabash decoration. Borders in saya (or sayagata) pattern, composed of Chinese swastikas...
Category
Early 19th Century Japanese Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Lacquer
Japanese Lacquered Furoshiki Kobako 'Box'
Located in PARIS, FR
Rectangular and flat lacquer Kobako (small box) representing a furoshiki knot seen from above. Fundame background, furoshiki in takamaki-e with floral pattern, inside the folds of the fabric with black and gold sayagata pattern with togidashi maki-e technique. The saya (or sayagata) pattern is composed of Chinese swastikas...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Lacquer
Rare Antique snowflakes red overlay snuff bottle, China 18th good provenance.
Located in PARIS, FR
China, A rare red overlay and snoflakes snuff bottle, 18th century.
A red overlay glass snuff bottle carved on a white bubbled snowflakes ground with pine, prunus and bamboo.
Togethe...
Category
18th Century Chinese Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Cut Glass
Japan kobako box lacquer samurai - Edo
Located in PARIS, FR
Takamaki-e and kirigane lacquer kobako box depicting two samurai entering an enclosure. Four guards block their access. The side is decorated with cherry blossoms in maki-e lacquer o...
Category
18th Century Japanese Japonisme Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Gold
Japanese bronze sculpture of a frog hidding in a lotus leaf (Okimono)
Located in PARIS, FR
A small bronze sculpture of a frog emerging from a huge lotus leaf, a small but detailed beetle on the other side of the leaf. The frog (kaeru) is associated with luck and wealth. In...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Japanese bronze incense burner in the form of an owl Signed Murata Seimin 村田製眠
Located in PARIS, FR
A bronze okimono of an owl, constructed in two sections, the short-eared owl (detachable) perched on a tree branch with its head cocked quizzically to the right and its wings folded ...
Category
18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
800 - Tapestry of the 20th Century
Located in Paris, FR
Tapestry of the 20th century in perfect condition of conservation.
Negotiable price and free delivery.
Dimension: 150 x 75 cm.
Category
1970s French Art Deco Vintage Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Wool
Japanese glazed Sandstone Teapot in the form of a Turtle
Located in PARIS, FR
Sandstone teapot in the shape of a turtle, the inside is enameled. The outside circumferences of the lid and the part in contact with the table are not enameled.
Japan – Taishô er...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Sandstone
670 - Aubusson French Antique "Au Petit Point" Textile
By Royal Manufacture of Aubusson
Located in Paris, FR
Textile of the Royal Manufacture of Aubusson of the 19th century.
Representation of some flowers.
Perfect state of a peacock in some of greenery.
Reinforced by a fabric on the bac...
Category
1840s French Romantic Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Wool
Netsuke in the form of a snake in boxwood with inlaid eyes and signature
Located in PARIS, FR
Boxwood netsuke of a snake tangled on itself, each scale is carved with precision, and the overall brown patina is intense. Even though snakes are almost always bad omen in Asia, it ...
Category
Early 19th Century Meiji Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Boxwood
Japanese fudebako or brush box in lacquered hardwood and ceramic inlay
Located in PARIS, FR
Brush box (fudebako) is made of wood and lacquer. On the lid, lacquer decoration representing sagittarius, a flower inlaid with ceramic and a leaf inlaid (raden).
Interior and base o...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Gold
Japanese Kimono-Diamond Pattern
Located in Paris, FR
Kimono designs featuring diamond-shaped (hishi-gata) patterns in the 1980s blended traditional Japanese motifs with modern aesthetics. The hishi pattern is a classic Japanese design ...
Category
Late 20th Century Japanese Showa Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Silk
Articulated iron sculpture or Jizai (articulated) in the form of a butterfly
Located in PARIS, FR
Fine iron jizai of an articulated butterfly with fascinating openwork on its wings.
The butterfly (choho) in Japan is perceived as "the soul of the living and the dead", the spirits ...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Inro in gold kinji lacquer representing chrysantemum flowers on all sides
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautifull Inro of three compartments made in kinji lacquer with an hiro maki-e ornament chrysanthemum flowers of gold and silver lacquer. Inside is in fundame lacquer.
Signed by Josen Zo and stamped by Seisan
Presented with an Ojime in metal in the shape of a chrysanthemum flower and with its netsuke representing two chrysanthemum flower buds.
The chrysanthemum (kiku) in not only the heraldic symbol of the Japanese imperial family...
Category
Early 19th Century Asian Edo Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Lacquer
Black and Gold Lacquer Suzuribako 'Writing Set'
Located in PARIS, FR
Black and gold lacquer suzuribako (writing set) in takamaki-e on a nashi-ji background representing two tigers near rocks, bamboos and plum blossoms in a night landscape. Inside of the lid with a lake landscape.
The interior of the suzuribako is composed with an inkstone, topped by a copper water bucket in the shape of a chrysanthemum on the left side, with a brush and a small knife. It includes in the right part a storage compartment.
Inscription under the inkstone "Inkstone made by Nakamura Chobe".
Although the tiger is not native to Japan, it has a high symbolic. The figure of courage was introduced by Buddhism from China. According to the Chinese tradition, the tiger is from one of the stars of the Great...
Category
Late 18th Century Japanese Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Lacquer
Kobako in natural wood of a frog under a willow tree
Located in PARIS, FR
Small kobako in natural wood made of a circular cross section, lacquered using both the maki-e technique and a transparent finish that grant a glossy finish to the bark. The composit...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Gold
Quran Stand In Khatam-kari, Persia, 19th C.
Located in PARIS, FR
Khatam kari is a fine, meticulous marquetry technique whose earliest examples date back to the Safavid period (1501-1730). This technique involves inlaying fine wood, brass or camel ...
Category
19th Century Persian Napoleon III Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Silver
Japanese Namban Chest adorned with cylindrical motives and mother of pearl inlay
Located in PARIS, FR
Small namban style chest with a semi-cylindrical lid made of black lacquered wood (urushi) with gold lacquer (maki-e) and inlaid with mother-of-pearl (raden).
Mon style decoration (...
Category
Mid-18th Century Japanese Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Lacquer, Mother-of-Pearl
Chinese Altar or Console made of exotic wood
Located in PARIS, FR
Chinese altar also used as console or side table. Made of exotic hard wood, probably zitan, with a dark patina. It features voluptuous flared edges and spandrels carved in cloud moti...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Qing Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Hardwood, Zitan
Pair of Japanese Bronze Grasshopper Vases
Located in PARIS, FR
Insects (mushi) occupy an important place in Japanese culture. Hunting for insects is a popular pastime, especially among children. Using plastic nets and cages, they catch cicadas and beetles to observe them.
Between 1830 and 1832, Hokusai composed an untitled series of ten large horizontal prints...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Japanese lacquered Inro chrysantemum
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautifull Inro of three compartments made in kinji lacquer with an hiro maki-e
ornament chrysanthemum flowers of gold and silver lacquer. Inside is in fundame
lacquer.
Signed by J...
Category
Mid-18th Century Japanese Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Lacquer
Japanese Sagemono Inro box with a maki-e decor of a Samuari in a lake landscape
Located in PARIS, FR
Inrô in gilded lacquer according to the takamaki-e, hiramaki-e and kirigane techniques, with five squares of a mountain lake landscape.
On the first side, there is a man on horsebac...
Category
18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Gold
Momoyama Namban Chest
Located in PARIS, FR
Namban chest with a semi-cylindrical lid made of black lacquered wood (urushi) with gold lacquer (maki-e) and inlaid with mother-of-pearl (raden).
Decorated with three main bands o...
Category
17th Century Japanese Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Lacquer
Bronze sculpture of two cicadas on a bamboo, used by calligraphs to hold paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Two cicadas in bronze facing each other on a bamboo segment
One is an adult while the other is at the nymph phase. Three foundry stamps, one underneath and one alongside each insect...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Japanese bronze of a Snail in a Naturalist Pose
Located in PARIS, FR
Bronze with a brown patina representing a snail with a very interesting pose. Its angular pose suggests that it could be exposed in such a way that he would mimic a real snail going ...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Antique Japanese Wooden Spinning Wheel Showa Era, 1960s
Located in Paris, FR
The spinning wheels are invented in Persia around the 13th century and introduced to India. It is thought to have been introduced to Japan in the Edo period. This spinning wheel is made in 1960s (mid-Showa era...
Category
1960s Japanese Vintage Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Wood
Japanese Shawan tea cup in celadon with corded pattern by to Tenzo Shimaoka
Located in PARIS, FR
Celadon tea cup with corded patterns glazed in the Jômon zogan style made by Tatsuzô Shimaoka (1919-2007, Mingei school). Developed by himself, this style ...
Category
20th Century Japanese Showa Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Celadon
Japan, A rare Japanese Kutani figure of Kannon on a Foo Lion, Meiji Period, 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Rare Japanese Kutani Figure: Unveiling Tranquility and Spiritual Power from Meiji Period Japan
Unveil a rare gem from Japan's historical Meiji ...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Wakasa-Nuri Lacquer Bundai, Ryoshobako, Fubako Set
Located in PARIS, FR
Set of bundai, ryoshibako and fudebako in wakasa lacquer with an old rose background and black traditional Japanese patterns.
The saya pattern (or sayagata) is composed by Chinese svastikas. This symbol linked to Buddhism, mean intelligence, power and peace. It is a good omen sign.
The kanoko pattern reminds stains on fawn back.
The sakura (cherry blossom) pattern is emblematic of Japan. The blossoming in a short time marks spring beginning and is a symbol of renewal and ephemeral beauty.
There are also traces of calligraphy brush, in reference to the function of the objects.
Bundai is a low table used to put books or scrolls and, later, to write.
Rectangular ryoshibako (letter and document box) with a slightly domed
Fudebako (pencil case) of rectangular format very narrow in its length with two rounded corners, flat cover.
Wakasa lacquerware...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Paris - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Lacquer
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