Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century Of conventional form, with a symmetrical arrangement of four sliding cupboard doors beneath a scrolled top, a single-hinged door, a rotating middle section that also serves as a galleried open shelf and multiple movable drawers, all the large surfaces elaborately decorated in gold, slightly coloured takamaki-e and hiramaki-e with bird-and-flower scenes, mainly of different species of birds perched or in flight around their natural habitat including mandarin ducks, cockerels, cranes, pheasants and sparrows, framed within thin borders of geometric motifs; unsigned. 20.2cm x 18.6cm x 8.5cm (8in x 7¼in x 3 3/8in).