Tebako, accessory or cosmetic box containing a tray, Japan, Edo period (1603-1868) Made of lacquered wood, the lid with hirameji, nashiji, hiramaki-e gold and silver, takamaki-e and kirikane decoration on a nashiji background, of a couple of mandarin ducks on a rock above a rippling river. On the left, a plum tree in bloom emerging from the top of a hedge and on the right a pine tree perched on a rocky islet. The tray with decoration in the same techniques, on the left a plum tree near a small wooden bridge over a river, on the right a pine tree on a rock. Around the box a rotating decoration of fishermen hauling their boat in a lakeside landscape with the same decorative registers of waves, pines, pines and rocks. Sold with its protective box in black lacquered wood (one of the sides is missing) on which is inscribed in gold lacquer the following title: "accessory box with sansui decoration in makie lacquer and hirameji" - Hirameji sansui makie otebako - 平目地山水蒔絵御手箱. As well as a second kiri protective box with the same title calligraphed in ink. The edges of the box and the lid are silver circled. 13,2 x 22 x 19 cm A few small missing pieces in the kirikane. Private collection from Paris - lots 78 to 127, 219 and 220