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

Box for letters (fubako)

early twentieth century

Wood decorated in black, gold and silver lacquer, mother-of-pearl, silk | 7.0 x 9.9 x 29.4 cm (parts .a and .b together) | RCIN 79920

Cranes, depicted on this box with mother-of-pearl wings, are a symbol of good fortune, said to live for a thousand years.
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