A COLLECTION OF TEN JAPANESE LACQUER BOXES

A COLLECTION OF TEN JAPANESE LACQUER BOXES
MEIJI AND LATER, 19TH/20TH CENTURY

Comprising six fubako (letter boxes), a kogo (box for incense), a card case, a foliate-shaped box, and a tall rectangular box with two compartments for playing cards; all variously decorated with birds, flowers, brocade patterns and landscapes, one fubako with a silver moon crescent above sprays of bush clover by a meandering stream, another with large chrysanthemum behind trellis, 31cm max. (19)

Provenance: the Tomkinson Family Collection.