Jewelry box in hardwood from Japan lacquered black, hand painted 50's retailer French Indochina

Beautiful and rare jewelry box made of southern hardwood (Nanyu) lacquered black.

This jewelry box is made from a hardwood, originally brown-red and black lacquered in the 50s at the time of French Indochina. This very rare wood nowadays, chosen for its quality of resistance to moisture and heat, has charmed Chinese, Japanese and Korean scholars.

Hand-painted, the design depicts a Japanese landscape, with an ornamental tree called the Flower of the Cotton Tree red silk widespread in South Asia, with representation of Lake Biwa and a Japanese woman fetching water from the river carved in white mother-of-pearl.

It contains a red case in very good condition, with a mirror
9.2 x 8.3 cm.

It measures (L) 18.2 x (D) 12.5 x (h) 4.8 cm
Weight: 322 g

This jewelry box is in good condition, some traces of wear of time as its lacquer patinated by the years.

To offer or to offer, this beautiful jewelry box will accompany you for a few more years. retailer