Jubako food box
Lacquered wood: semi-gloss black background and gold-dusted hiramaki-e decoration interior is in red lacquer.This elegant rectangular food box, called jubako, features rounded edges and three overlapping compartments for keeping food items separate.On the lid and front sides, the black lacquer base highlights the refined gold lacquer decoration depicting a coat of arms known as mon.This emblem depicts the kikyo bellflower, a five-petalled flower within a circle, used by the Akechi clan, which prospered in the latter part of the Sengoku period, around the mid-1500s.
Meiji Period (1868-1912)
Japan
Lacquered wood: semi-gloss black background and gold-dusted hiramaki-e decoration interior is in red lacquer.This elegant rectangular food box, called jubako, features rounded edges and three overlapping compartments for keeping food items separate.On the lid and front sides, the black lacquer base highlights the refined gold lacquer decoration depicting a coat of arms known as mon.This emblem depicts the kikyo bellflower, a five-petalled flower within a circle, used by the Akechi clan, which prospered in the latter part of the Sengoku period, around the mid-1500s. - Schreiber Collezioni