Property from the Paul and Helen Anbinder Collection A SET OF GOLD-LACQUER BOXESMeiji era (1868-1912) prising a rectangular box with inrōbuta (flush-fitting) lid, the box fitted with a kakego (interior tray) and containing four smaller rectangular boxes and lids and pierced with a circular opening to allow one of the boxes to be released; the exterior and tray with landscapes in suibokuga style featuring craggy mountains, pavilions, pine, cherry, and other trees, the smaller boxes each with sprays of chrysanthemum blossom; the wood substrate covered in gold and black lacquer decorated principally in gold takamaki-e embellished with gold kirigane against a background of fine gold hirame and nashiji , the other surfaces rich gold nashiji ; with a wood storage box 1 3/4 x 6 x 4 3/4 in (4.4 x 15.1 x 12.1cm) Provenance The Jade Dragon, Arts of Pacific Asia, New York, March 28, 2003 Exhibited Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, "Scattered Gold and Midnight Gloss, Japanese Lacquer from the Anbinder Collection," March 31-July 8, 2007