Japan: Courts and Culture: The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace

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AKATSUKA JITOKU (1871-1936)

Miniature cabinet of drawers

c.1907

Black, gold and silver lacquer, with inlays of mother-of-pearl, horn and shell, on wood | 20.8 x 25.1 x 16.85 cm (whole object) | RCIN 33967

The close partnership of the treaty period was cemented by gift-giving at jubilees, weddings and other royal events. This coronation gift to Queen Mary is the work of one of the most prestigious lacquerers of the early twentieth century.
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