Stunning, Very Fine Antique Japanese Lacquer Writing Box with Inlaid Pearls vintage Minnie Mouse figurine with copper and pink surface

with copper and pink surface decoration on its interior over a reactive creamy glaze

educator and theorist Gyorgy Kepes (founder of MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies) is this terrific book

--some of them happily given little patches of green or tiny pools to swim in

She also looks to me like she's holding a juicy secret

Lucien has drawn himself as a young man cheerfully receiving a postcard from his uncle

Stunning, Very Fine Antique Japanese Lacquer Writing Box with Inlaid Pearls vintage Minnie Mouse figurine with copper and pink surfaceI purchased this Japanese lacquer box at an estate sale a few years ago, and have sat on it thinking I would take it to an appraiser, but that has not happened, so here I am listing it. It is quite a fine one, which I believe would be referred to as a Suzuri Bako, made for holding writing brushes, ink stick, and or inkstone; this might once have held an interior tray or trays for those, though I am not certain. The design of the lid features