TC565: Japanese Export lacquer tea chest with raised gilded lacquer depicting birds and insects in  watery backgrounds. Inside there are two foil lined canisters,  their hinged lids decorated with exquisite depictions of insets, again in raised lacquer. The inside of the chest is in red lacquer sprinkled with gold powder,  nashiji. Circa 1880

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