A RARE AND LARGE JAPANESE BLACK LACQUER CUTLERY BOX C.1800 Formed as an urn

A RARE AND LARGE JAPANESE BLACK LACQUER CUTLERY BOX

C.1800

Formed as an urn, with a rising cover revealing tiered compartments for knives, decorated to the exterior with vertical panels in mother of pearl and gold, depicting exotic birds and flower sprays, the square plinth raised on four bracket feet, 76cm.

Cf. O Impey and C Jörg, Japanese Export Lacquer 1580-1850, p.215, n.521 and p.326, n.637 for two comparable Japanese knife urns at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem.