Rare Pair of Japanese Nagasaki Export Lacquered Wood Knife Boxes

Description

Rare pair of Japanese Nagasaki Export lacquered wood knife boxes with mother-of-pearl inlay of flowers and birds, now converted to letter boxes.  The boxes were converted to letter boxes in the late 19th c. as shown in photograph.

From Sutton Place townhouse of the Heinz family.

FW 1654