A fine box and cover with mandarin duck with basket weave and silver

Description:

Japan, Meiji period
5,2 x 14 x 9,7 cm
The cover plate in silver, decorated in iroe-hirazogan and takazogan, with decoration of ducks, one in the water and the other on a rock. Roiro ground inside.
From an old North German private collection, acquired between 1992 and 1994, this box acquired at Christie's London,38.3.1994, lot 86 - Minim. traces of age