Beschreibung:

Meiji era (1868–1912), late 19th–early 20th century A sagejūbako (portable picnic set) comprising a rectangular frame fitted with a silver handle and with a fitted shelf towards the top, the frame containing a cylindrical four-tiered box and lid and a rectangular two-tiered box and lid supporting a silver sake flask with a cover modelled as a cloth, the upper shelf of the frame supporting a box with cut-away sides containing five rectangular trays and a footed tray with a sakazuki (sake cup), the decoration on the exterior of the frame and the boxes executed mainly in gold hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, and foil on the black-lacquer roiro ground and consisting of roundels of different plants including hagi (bush clover, Lespedeza bicolor), plum, peony, maple, chrysanthemum, and clematis, against a broken geometric ground of lozenge shapes each enclosing a four-petal motif, the interiors of the boxes plain red lacquer, the five trays all covered in fine gold nashiji and decorated in gold, aokin, and silver hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, and foil with some details in shell, each tray depicting a different flowering plant: hagi, plum, dandelion, peony, and camellia, the footed tray decorated in similar techniques with chrysanthemums and daisies by a stream, the sakazuki of standard form decorated with kiri (paulownia) branches and leaves in gold and silver hiramaki-e against a red-lacquer background, signed inside the footring with gold hiramaki-e characters Koma 古満, the silver bottle chiselled with similar designs to the exterior of the boxes Overall: 35 × 47 × 29.7 cm (13¾ × 18½ × 11¾ in.) With fitted lacquered-wood storage box inscribed outside Hanamaru maki-e on sagejū 花丸蒔絵　御提重（Picnic set with floral motifs）(19)