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=Japanese Sagemono Round Wooden Box w. Silver Menuki, Brocade & Hirado Netsuke

$ 66

Availability: 82 in stock
  • Color: Black
  • Condition: Please examine carefully the photos and read the entire description bellow. Good overall. Please see photos. Great old patina to the wood and the silver. The hinge is broken
  • Maker: Japan
  • Region of Origin: Japan
  • Age: 1800-1849
  • Primary Material: Wood
  • Original/Reproduction: Antique Original

    Description

    Unusual 18th/19th c. Japanese Sagemono -  Round Wooden Box with Silver Samurai Menuki, Brocade Liner and Hirado Porcelain Netsuke
    For your consideration is a very intriguing find
    An antique Japanese box, turned from black finished root wood, with hinged lid
    A well detailed silver menuki style ornament featuring a kneeling samurai in full armor decorates the top
    The interior is lined up with golden brocade fabric displaying stamped floral pattern with weaved metal strings
    The inner side of the lid bears incrusted mother of pearl stylized chrysanthemum, the Imperial Family Emblem
    Two holes aside intended for a string
    An attached on a cord Hirado porcelain netsuke figurine of a fiercely looking man is hidden inside the box. Whether the whole group was intended to be like this or it was organized at latter moment, we can just guess
    A puzzling item with a puzzling purpose, it could be an amulet of a kind to be carried around for protection or just a common accessory
    Circa late 18th/early 19th century, late Edo period
    All original and as found
    Measurements:
    The box is approximately 4 1/8 " in diameter x 2.5" high; the netsuke is 2.75" tall
    Weighs about 6 oz.
    Condition:
    Good overall.
    Please see
    photos. Great old patina to the wood and the silver. The hinge is broken
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