Drawered Hand Box (Tebako) with Four-Season Motif Design and Various Interior Cosmetic Boxes with Scrolling Floral Designs

Japanese

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold and silver utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design), takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design), nashiji ("pear-skinned" ground), and harigaki (linear incising) techniques, and with applied kirigane (cut gold and silver) and shibuchi (copper-silver alloy); metal fittings

Edo period, 1615-1868