Antique Japanese Red & Black Lacquered 3-Drawer Box~Coin & Floral Decorations

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Antique Japanese Red & Black Lacquered 3-Drawer Box~Coin & Floral Decorations :
$15.00

What a sweet little piece! Picked this up at a local flea market, where the seller, probably in his 70s, couldonlytell me that he remembered hisgrandmother bringing it back along with other souvenirs after a trip to \"The Orient\". It\'s asmalllacquered dresser box, complete with three drawers in graduating sizes, bow-shaped metal drawer pulls, painteddecorations on the red drawers and small coin on either side of the pulls for added pizazz...Pleasecheck the pictures carefully for condition---lots of missing lacquer along the edges of the box, with most of the wear on the four little feet and the rear edges. Lookingfrom the front, the bottom right side needs to bereglued, and each picture will show cracks in the lacquered surface, especially along the seams where the piece was held together. It looks as though some of the red paint on the drawers is peeling, but it\'s hard to tell if this is part of the design or a condition of wear. Each surface is decorated with delicate hand-paintedflowers. When trying to research the coins on the front, I was able to find one almost identical to the rectangular piece on the top drawer, and it was a Japanese coin. The pulls are simple split-tab style (see pic 9), and while it may be hard to see, the metal tabs beneath the drawers (connecting it from front to back---see pic 5) and the drawer pulls have designs on them. Each drawer opens and closes easily enough, and the entire interior is crudely painted. This well may havebeen a tourist item...even so, for an antique piece of Orientalia, it\'s got all the right elements---right down to the unreadable paper label on the bottom. Measures 4.5\" long, 2.5\" wide and 5.5\" high.
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