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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;LauraGarnet02, post: 11160914, member: 20118&quot;][ATTACH=full]537704[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]537705[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]537706[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]537708[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]537709[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]537710[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]537711[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]537712[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]537713[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]537714[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Guessing it is a Japanese lacquered Bento Box (lunch box). Or it could just be an ordinary covered bowl.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hand-painted depicting a Gosho Doll (Imperial Palace Doll) wearing an Eboshi cap/hat, pulling a bream fish on a cart.</p><p><br /></p><p>The two dots on the forehead &quot;might&quot; be Hikimayu.</p><p>But the little guy still has his own eyebrows so might mean something different.</p><p>(It used to be a fashion in ancient Japan to completely plucked out their eyebrows and paint eyebrows higher on the forehead.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Is it possible the marks just above the gold Eboshi hat is an artist&#039;s signature?</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikimayu" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikimayu" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikimayu</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://honolulu.emuseum.com/objects/7668/gosho-ningyo-palace-doll" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://honolulu.emuseum.com/objects/7668/gosho-ningyo-palace-doll" rel="nofollow">https://honolulu.emuseum.com/objects/7668/gosho-ningyo-palace-doll</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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