Antique Japanese Lacquer Inlaid Hardwood Meiji Period Shibayama Shodana Cabinet Circa 1880 Sculpture in the Neo-Classical style

in the Neo-Classical style

When set as a table: 30" tall x 33" diameter When tilted for storage: 51" tall x 33" wide x 25" deep

Please see a similar lamp in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum and a very similar lamp in the collections of the Smithsonian accession number F1908

The circular compote standing on a raised & flared foot

Antique Japanese Lacquer Inlaid Hardwood Meiji Period Shibayama Shodana Cabinet Circa 1880 Sculpture in the Neo-Classical styleAn exquisite antique Japanese Meiji period Shibayama Shodana cabinet, circa 1880. One of the finest antique Shibayama cabinets one will see, the cabinet is finely inlaid and overlaid with gold lacquer decoration of; Iroe Hiramakie, Takamakie & aogai lacquer. The top of the cabinet having two gilded removable crowns with carved phoenixes, the cabinet has twelve cupboard doors and to the base three drawer panels sumptuously decorated with doves, quail,