Dressing table set

 

Japan, around 1900

 

Wood covered with natural lacquer and decorated in takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, nashiji, mura nashiji and kirigane. Copper and copper alloy mounts. The doors feature the motif of a bird of prey and a phoenix in a pine tree; the drawers present landscape motifs with Mount Fuji.

H: 72.5 cm, W: 37.5 cm / L: 52.5 cm

O 2

 

Purchased from H. Sänger of Hamburg.