A GROUP OF SIX JAPANESE LACQUER AND WOOD BOXES AND COVERS Meiji period Including: a shallow box inlaid in mother of pearl with Shojo asleep by a large sake barrel, a Lac Burguate-decorated box with a design of bamboo, prunus, blossoms and butterflies, a chaire finely painted in gilt lacquer over nashiji ground with wild grasses,pleted with a reticulated metal cover, a red and a black guri-lacquer boxe carved with ruyi heads and a plain wood box carved with blossoms and butterflies 5.5cm – 7.7cm diameter (12) - PROVENANCE: Private London collection