Antique Japanese Wooden Red Lacquer Sakazuki Sake Cup Gold Makie 3” Byoubu or interior designers

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This vase measures 12" in diameter by 4" wide

Six cups were available at the time of listing

1900) kyodai (mirrored vanity tansu chest) with a unique arrangement of three drawers as well as a hidden section which is found when the lower drawer is removed (see picture 10)

5" long by 3" wide

Antique Japanese Wooden Red Lacquer Sakazuki Sake Cup Gold Makie 3” Byoubu or interior designersThis is an antique Japanese late Meiji Era (c. 1910) lacquer sakazuki (sake cup) made of hand turned cryptomeria wood with over twenty layers of red lacquer. It has makie (raised gold artwork) depicting Mt Fuji and lace scape. Japanese lacquer from the Meiji era was considered the finest ever made. It is durable enough to withstand the harshest treatment the centuries have thrown at it. Having been in storage for over a century, this sakazuki remains