Japanese Lacquered Papier Mache Box with Three Scholars palette an American ceramicist now based

an American ceramicist now based in the Netherlands

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Japanese Lacquered Papier Mache Box with Three Scholars palette an American ceramicist now basedThis may be my favorite lacquered box I've had and I've gathered a fair number of lacquer boxes! It's the patterns of the kimono of the three figures that really makes it for me so elegant, and with that gold just popping against the black ground. I especially love the gesture of the figure with unrolled scroll before him, and the figure to his right with serenely attentive expression and arms locked gracefully behind him. Really a striking box, and