18th Century
The box with a recessed flat octagonal panel to the top inlaid with a coiling dragon amidst clouds, above a wide register of eight recessed landscape panels on the rounded upper sides above a thinner band with alternate vignettes of birds on tree branches divided by panels of differing flora and rockwork, all set within sprinkled gold ground nashiji beaded-edge surrounds, the box mirroring the decoration above with a conjoined eight-legged stand with ogival apron and ruyi-shaped out-curving feet on a thin stepped stretcher support.
14 1/8in high and 13 1/4in across (35.9cm high and 33.6cm across) Japanese wood box
18th Century
The box with a recessed flat octagonal panel to the top inlaid with a coiling dragon amidst clouds, above a wide register of eight recessed landscape panels on the rounded upper sides above a thinner band with alternate vignettes of birds on tree branches divided by panels of differing flora and rockwork, all set within sprinkled gold ground nashiji beaded-edge surrounds, the box mirroring the decoration above with a conjoined eight-legged stand with ogival apron and ruyi-shaped out-curving feet on a thin stepped stretcher support.
14 1/8in high and 13 1/4in across (35.9cm high and 33.6cm across) Japanese wood box
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