Featured Nice little Japanese Lacquer box with Maki-e

I fell for the birds again lol.
This little box is 7" x 6" x 2" has a locking mechanism but no key. Yet.
Multiple shades of maki-e. Gold is so very hard to photograph, I hope you can tell what is gold. most of it lol. I was thinking Meiji period? any thoughts appreciated.
Mikey

 

Japanese lacquer music box? I might have made off with that too.

 

the colours definitely say meiji to me, i've got something very similar but with an old photograph on the top, but box/lock construction is more than similar, think it was 1900-1910....ish

 

I think it's just a jewelry or keepsake box. Sadly No music .Thanks @charlie cheswick
My thoughts exactly.
Mikey

 

did you ever see that one of mine mikey ?, quite unsual with the japanese scene photograph

 

I don't think I have.
Mikey

 

this is the one buddy, i think its lacquer anyway, the photos probably the cool part of it anyway

https://www.antiquers.com/threads/boot-jewelry-japanese-box.64851/

 

Nice.

 

I might have a thing for the birds.

 

Lovely boxes Bulldogs-love antique lacquer.
PS- @charlie cheswick ,never seen an antique Japanese (albumen ?) photo box,did you discover what they're going for ?

 

And @charlie cheswick your photograph is of the Garden of sweet flag in Tokyo.

Mikey

 

Good ID on that view Bulldog.Re: Japanese photographs-A bit of Taisho,but esp Meiji albumens,tintypes and earlier go for a premium-heaven knows what dags & ambros go for ?

 

wow, think i might need one (thats a double wink for double entendre)

but beautiful.

i think i've still got mine somewhere(can't remember ever selling it)

just thought you might find it interesting to see

Charlie

(edit..... and a super bit of info with location )

 

now thats something i wouldn't mind seeing bosk, reckon pretty stunning examples must exist

 

I can't find any boxes for sale online (w/ antique Japanese decoupaged photos)-might be quite rare ?....or I didn't punch in the right Googlie !

 

think i have tried selling it once (ukonly) and there wasn't much interest, its a bugger to photograph for some reason

you can make the photo look good and the box bad, or vice versa

boxes i always find not the easiest to photo for a gallery pic as you can never cram everything in

 

Your pics are always top notch. Can you do one closeup of the pic,then ones just devoted to the box form.markings,etc ?

 

yeah thats the best option, its just that you want all the bells and whistles showing for the gallery pic , but thats not always possible. sometimes as you said its best just to focus on that one aspect or feature

now i've got the exact location, that might help things alot

thinking about it might try selling it in the photographs category, since that is the interesting feature (good idea bosk, you do come up trumps/get my mind thinking about pieces)

 

Glad I could help. If you can get a few rabid antique Japanese image collectors competing-that could be damn good !