Box for Personal Accessories (Tebako) with Shells and Seaweed Design, 岸蒔絵手箱, Edo period (1615–1868), 17th century, Japan, Lacquered wood with gold hiramaki-e, and e-nashiji on black lacquer ground, H. 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm); W. 8 5/8 in. (21.9 cm); L. 10 1/4 in. (26 cm), Lacquer, Boxes of this shape were used as early as the twelfth century to hold personal accessories such as combs. From the seventeenth century onward, groups of such boxes were part of the extensive sets of lacquered furnishings found in the trousseaus of the elite and of the expanding merchant class
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Box, Personal Accessories, Tebako, Shells, Seaweed Design, 岸蒔絵手箱, Edo period, 1615–1868, 17th century, Japan, Lacquered wood, gold hiramaki-e, e-nashiji, black lacquer ground, H, 6 1/2, 16.5 cm, W, 8 5/8, 21.9, L, 10 1/4, 26, Lacquer, Boxes, shape, early, twelfth, hold personal accessories, combs, seventeenth onward, groups, boxes, part, extensive sets, lacquered furnishings, trousseaus, elite, expanding merchant, class
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