A mother-of-pearl inlaid brown lacquer box and cover, Ryukyu Kingdom, 17th century | 琉球王國 十七世紀 褐漆嵌螺鈿松鼠葡萄紋蓋盒

See a closely related example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (accession no. 2019.193.45a, b), exhibited in East Asian Lacquer from the Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1991, cat. no. 163. Compare another similar example, but of smaller size, also in the Museum (accession no. 2020.323.11a–e), and another sold at Christie's Tokyo, 15th February 1981, lot 435, now in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit (accession no. 81.683.A).