A light natural wood natsume, with a globular wall and carved decoration in light relief and enhanced with gold, brown and nashiji lacquer, of a landscape of wooded hills in the moonlight; the dark wood lid decorated in iro-e takazogan with a shishi near peonies and rocks. The bowl signed Hisatora, the lid with inscription on the side... Japan, 19th century. (Small crack) Provenance : Ader sale 16 March 1962, Louis C... H. 5 cm.