Japanese Lacquered Papier Mache Box with Three Scholars antique cerebos salt tim and this is only the

and this is only the second one I've come across

accomplishing absolutely nothing

Painted olive green on backsides

Pull down on his legs

and am not sure it is silver plate either

Japanese Lacquered Papier Mache Box with Three Scholars antique cerebos salt tim and this is only theThis may be my favorite lacquered box I've had and I've gathered a fair number of lacquer boxes! It's the patterns of the kimono of the three figures that really makes it for me so elegant, and with that gold just popping against the black ground. I especially love the gesture of the figure with unrolled scroll before him, and the figure to his right with serenely attentive expression and arms locked gracefully behind him. Really a striking box, and