Property from the Paul and Helen Anbinder Collection A BLACK-LACQUER MINIATURE CHEST OF DRAWERSMeiji era (1868-1912) A sagedansu (handled chest of drawers),prising a cabinet with inset rounded corners supported on a wider base and fitted with a hinged door that opens to reveal three hikidashi (drawers), the exterior with fall foliage at Arashiyama on the western outskirts of Kyoto, the interior with two quails, a sparrow and susuki or obana (plume grass or pampas grass, Miscanthus sinensis ); the wood substrate covered in black lacquer and decorated principally in gold and colored hiramaki-e and takamaki-e against fine gold kinpun , the metal fittings of silver or shibuichi , the interiors gold nashiji , the edges and base gold fundame 6 1/8 x 4 7/8 x 6 3/4in (15.7 x 12.5 x 17cm) Provenance Marumoto Shokai, March 24, 2000