Japanese Lacquered Papier Mache Box with Three Scholars antique cerebos salt tim It measures 19" tall x

It measures 19" tall x 18" wide without handles

I believe it is Danish Modern

Painted olive green on backsides

This hand-thrown stoneware bowl

Japanese Lacquered Papier Mache Box with Three Scholars antique cerebos salt tim It measures 19" tall xThis 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