#lacquer ware

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A cinnabar lacquered figure of a horse. The animal modelled standing with its head lowered, with a hardstone saddle and embellishments in hardstone and mother of pearl.

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Shibata Zeshin - The Narrow Road to Shu, hanging scroll, lacquer painting on paper. Signed Tairyukyo Zeshin, aged 71, followed by a seal reading Zeshin (1878).

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Lacquer Tea Caddy with Phoenix, Japan, 19th century

Met Museum New York

Provenance: bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881

H. 2 3/8 in. (6 cm); W. 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)

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A pair of Chinese cast iron and lacquered teapots Ovoid, each cast with a continuous foliate frieze, beneath a loop handle and a gilt and black lacquered cover, 17 cm high

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Chinese mother of pearl inlaid lacquered circular box, the cover depicting mother with two children with all-over landscape decoration, circa late 19th-early 20th century.

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Antique Japanese Lacquer O-Bento Box with Gold and Silver Maki-E Decoration

Antique Japanese three-tiered o-bento box with a carrying tray decorated with a classical Rimpa style gold and silver Maki-e lacquer design of gently swaying grasses under a pale cloud obscured moon, Meiji period, circa 1900.

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A Japanese lacquer shodana cabinet, second half 19th century. Decorated overall in gold hiramakie against a glossy roiro nuri ground.

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Rare Japanese vermilion red and black lacquered trunk, a copy of an example in the collection of the Shosoin Imperial treasure storehouse. Set on six splayed legs with elaborate chased and copper hardware. Meiji period, late 19th century.