A gold-lacquer rectangular kobako (small box) and cover


By Jukakusai Eishu, late Edo period (1615-1868), mid/late 19th centuryThe flush-fitting cover decorated in gold, silver and red takamaki-e and hiramaki-e with a portrait of Daruma enveloped in a robe meditating within an inset circular gold-lacquer panel above broken trellis on a dilapidated wall which continues over the sides of the box, all reserved on a nashiji ground, the inside of the box similarly lacquered with a hossu (Buddhist fly-whisk) and a set of scrolls, the interior and underside of the box of rich Gyobu; signed on the inside of the cover in gold lacquer Jukakusai Eishu with a kao. 2.6cm x 8.3cm x 7.1cm (1in x 3¼in x 2¾in). (2).