Hand-painted Gold on Black Japanese Lacquer Box with Figure, Signed hand-thrown bowl and this wear certainly suggests

and this wear certainly suggests it was hung and seen

Such a luscious vase

With handles on either side

Just a great hand-thrown pottery vase by Jeff Brown--nice and earthy

and then smartly looped through the weave of the basket below

Hand-painted Gold on Black Japanese Lacquer Box with Figure, Signed hand-thrown bowl and this wear certainly suggestsI love a good lacquer box, and really love the imagery on this one, with this serene looking cross legged figure, a monk I assume, holding up a brush in one hand and flag like page in the other, painted with what I'd assume is the kanji or signature of its maker. And then those great trees and islands in the background, with abstracted bird flying overhead. I assume this lacquered papier mache box is early 20th century Japanese. The interior is a deep