This magnificent Japanese lacquer card case is from the Charles Goddard Weld Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston, USA.

One side depicts carp in a river with black lacquer ground with kinpun, ao-kinpun and gold hirame, decorated in gold, aokin and colored hiramaki-e and takamaki-e with encrustations of shell and other materials. The reverse depicts a landscape with similar decoration. It is inscribed 無銘 and dates from 1890, and measures 10.7 x 6.8 x 1.3 cm.

The case was a bequest by Goddard to the Museum on 7 December 1911. To find out more about Charles Goddard Weld,  click here.

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