Description

Antique Japanese lacquer box with a rooster and hen in gold maki-e lacquer with colorful details. The bodies of the birds are raised and rounded. Each feather is carefully treated. Tiny squares of sheet gold are pressed into the black and gold lacquered ground. The interior of the box is covered in nashiji. The underside of the lid has a flowers and grasses in maki-e on a nashiji ground.

Age: Edo Period

Dimensions: 7 3/4″ long x 5 1/4″ wide x 1 1/16″ deep