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Of likely Japanese manufacture, but made for the Chinese market, the long sides of the rectangular container cast with opposing gilt panels of a lion and diminutive human figures amid birds and branches, each raised on a minutely pounced ground framed with a dark shakudo (Ch: chitong) finish that covers the side walls as the ground for incised figures and landscape elements picked out in gilt, the archaistic flavor of the container further enhanced by gilt flanges projecting at the corners with serrated edges that recur on the separately cast legs, the flaring handles also separately cast and gilt (gilt worn, repairs); replacement wood cover.
6in (15.2cm) length over handles