A Louis Xv Gold and Japanese Lacquer Aide-Mémoire

Of book form, the two covers formed from black Japanese lacquer panels decorated in gold maki-e and depicting pine and prunus trees around a pavilion near a lake and with mountains behind, the interior with gold-flecked lacquer panels in nashiji urushi, and set on one side with a portrait miniature on ivory of a gentleman in fur-hemmed red coat within a ribbon-tied foliate pierced frame, the border chased with Vitruvian scrolls and applied with lugs holding a gold pencil, with fabric lined carnet, marked inside the binding: charge, date-letter (V) and maker; on the outside of the binding: decharge

Estimate:£8,000

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