Antique Japanese rectangular lacquer stationary box with a large parrot sitting on a corn stock and eyeing an ear of corn. Raised maki-e lacquer in gold and various shades of dark green and brown. The sides are further decorated with more ears of corn (a grasshopper sitting on one). The lacquer work contains great details like the texture of the parrot's feather and the stringy silk of the corn. The large reserve with the parrot and smaller reserves on the sides are treated with a red/orange background with gold flecks. And around this is a fine gold net-like motif on a black lacquer ground with nashiji. The interior of both the lid and body of the box is treated with a very dense and beatutiful nashiji lacquer and both rims are edged in silver. The back of the box is signed: 緑鳥作 Made by Ryokuchо̄. Appropriately the name means "Green Bird".

Age: Meiji Period (1868-1912)

Dimensions: 13 1/2" long x 10 1/8" wide x 4 3/8" high