Description:
standard form incense tray, rectangular with slightly curved sides, turned-in corners and braket feet; base decorated with gold, silver and slightly colored togidashi-e, hiramaki-e, and takamaki-e on a polished black-lacquer ground with gold and silver hirame - metal flakes, depicting rocks by a seashore with pines, bamboo, and plum, three cranes with bands of cloud in fine hirame and mist in larger hashiji-like flakes; silver rim; includes an inscribed (footed maki-e incense tray with hirame ground) storage box; the shape of the central mountain and the pine, bamboo and plum and the cranes all suggest Mt. Horai which is traditionally featured in wedding ceremonies.

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