A Japanese lacquer writing box and cover for the European market Meiji/Taisho period the cover decorated with pheasants on a rocky outcrop beside peony and under a flowering prunus, opening to reveal an embroidered writing slope with a central roundel of a communion cup below the inscription Gerardus, Petrus, MDCCCLXXIV (1874) and above the coat-of-arms of Bishop Gerardus Petrus Wilmer, below two metal-mounted glass ink bottles and a removable pen tray 46.3cm., 18 1/4 in.
A Japanese lacquer writing box and cover for the European market Meiji/Taisho period the cover decorated with pheasants on a rocky outcrop beside peony and under a flowering prunus, opening to reveal an embroidered writing slope with a central roundel of a communion cup below the inscription Gerardus, Petrus, MDCCCLXXIV (1874) and above the coat-of-arms of Bishop Gerardus Petrus Wilmer, below two metal-mounted glass ink bottles and a removable pen tray 46.3cm., 18 1/4 in.
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