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9 ? in. (23.5 cm.) wide, Japanese wood box
Private collection, Tokyo, formed in the 1930-40s.
A similar carved black and red tixi lacquer octagonal box and cover dated early Ming period, late 14th-early 15th century, in the Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is illustrated by James C. Y. Watt and Barbara Brennan Ford, East Asian Lacquer: The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1992, pp. 57-8, no. 12.