Bidspirit auction | A JAPANESE LARGE LACQUER BOX

A JAPANESE LARGE LACQUER BOX (RYOSHIBAKO), TAISHO PERIOD - A large lacquer document box (gobunko) with silver rims. The store box for paper is in all sides decorated with quails in a landscape with horsetail (a perennial herb) and rocks, all in raised takamakie-lacquer, the back ground in sprinkled nashiji-gold lacquer. In lids at its inside shows a crescent moon lit landscape with some of the seven herbs of autumn (aki no nanagusa), also in raised gold makie-lacquer. In a red lacquered tomobako store box. 42 by 34 cm. Width: 15.5 cm