Japanese Orange Lacquer Nesting Box with Gold Cranes candle sticks printed by The Bobbs-Merrill Company

printed by The Bobbs-Merrill Company in the 20s-early 30s (last copyright is 1903)

but I can't make them out

I'd guess well over a hundred years

The glazing is a mottling of soft lavender and grayish brown

and later at the Art Student League in New York

Japanese Orange Lacquer Nesting Box with Gold Cranes candle sticks printed by The Bobbs-Merrill CompanyThis lovely round Japanese lacquer box, c. 1920s, is the most perfect warm shade of orange, and features a design of three cranes on top rendered in gold, black and silver, in very slight relief. Inside are five lacquer bowls of diminishing size, one inside the next. A very elegant piece that would hold its own amid any collection of beautiful boxes. 3 1 4" in diameter and 2 5 8" tall. It is in very good condition, with a few small scratches to the