Gold lacquer and nashiji tobako Japanese of rounded rectangular form, and fitted with interior tray, the exterior decorated with a country home and fenced garden with flowering tree with mother-of-pearl leaves set beside a meandering river upon which a boat is moored, all against a landscape of rolling hills with scattered pine trees and a flight of five cranes, all on a fundame ground with hiramakiye and kirikane details, sides with meandering river, pine trees and wild flowers in gold fundame, hiramakiye with mother-of-pearl flower heads and scattered insects, interior of cover with a cherry and willow tree with foliage in mother-of-pearl and three pigeons beside a garden curtain, interior tray with five mandarin ducks and a cherry tree in a river scene in mother-of-pearl and gold takamakiye all within gold kirikane border Provenance: The Tomkinson collection, number 766