Japanese Papier Mache Lacquer Box with Interior Scenes carved animal What I find especially intruiging

What I find especially intruiging about it are the cartoonish pyrograph designs

in the original box

The tray is signed C

designed by Lagardo Tackett for Schmid Porcelain in the 1950s

Here is fun double deck set of “Godey’s Ladies” cards

Japanese Papier Mache Lacquer Box with Interior Scenes carved animal What I find especially intruigingI am fairly certain this lovely small Japanese lacquer on papier mache box dates to Meiji period, which extended from 1868 to 1912. It features wonderfully detailed depictions of interior scenes, including figures in beautifully decorated kimonos sitting and eating, all rendered in gold, white and black against red. I just love the specificity of the imagery, down to the facial expressions of each figure, and the overall effect it creates of glimpsing