Meiji period
The rectangular box with a hinged cover, worked throughout in gold nunome-zogan, depicting the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove drinking wine and playing instruments accompanied by attendants, the sides decorated with swirling waves and the interior finely incised with mountainous riverscapes, a drawer at the foot containing a removeable tray decorated with butterflies, signed Koraku.
15cm (5 7/8in) x 6cm (2 3/8in) x 10.5cm (4 1/8in). (2).
Footnotes
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價
明治時代 鐵布目象嵌竹林七賢盒
「後樂」款