A SMALL LACQUER INCENSE CASE, KOGO, FOR THE TEA CEREMONY, MEIJI PERIOD (1868-1912)

the rectangular box with over-hanging cover, decorated in gold, silver, red and black hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, keuchi and kimpun on a black lacquer ground, with a Takabune (Treasure Ship) adrift in rolling waves, silvered fittings in the form of yastume mon (‘four eyes’ crests), accompanied with a fitted wood storage box, the cover signed Hirayasu Zohiko and with seal Zohiko, 5.8cm longthe rectangular box with over-hanging cover, decorated in gold, silver, red and black hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, keuchi and kimpun on a black lacquer ground, with a Takabune (Treasure Ship) adrift in rolling waves, silvered fittings in the form of yastume mon (‘four eyes’ crests), accompanied with a fitted wood storage box, the cover signed Hirayasu Zohiko and with seal Zohiko, 5.8cm long