Antique Japanese lacquer suzuribako (calligraphy box) decorated with young pine shoots and a fruiting tachibana (wild orange) tree near a small stream. Gold maki-e lacquer on a dense gold nishiji ground. The underside of the lid has a continuing scene of the stream winding through rocks with sprouting bamboo in gold maki-e lacquer on a spars nishiji on black lacquer ground. The interior of the body of the box is decorated with small sprigs of young pine in gold maki-e lacquer on a ground of sparse gold nishiji on black lacquer, matching the underside of the lid. The tachibana tree on the lid of the box is also the family crest of the noble Tachibana clan.

Meiji Period (1868-1912)

Dimensions: 1 3/4" high x 8 3/4" wide x 10" long