Four footed platform base with three stacked rectangular boxes progressively smaller in height with a detached lid at the top. Outside it is painted gold overall. The top of the lid, top of the base bottoms and insides of the boxes are speckled with metallic dusts. Inside the top box are three small rectangular boxes with lids. (Outside painted gold, inside bottom speckled). Center box has round hole in the bottom. There are hand-painted motifs of Oriental landscapes on a black ground, on the lids of the smaller boxes and on the sides of the whole box.
boxes (containers)
gilding
lacquering
wood (plant material)
Orientalism
Gilded
Lacquered
Oriental
Landscape
BOX, TRINKET
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Unknown
Japan
3.875 x 5.438 x 3.813 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.1639
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