A Pretty Vintage Japanese Decorative Fish Skin Chest sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles or simply folk that yearn

or simply folk that yearn for an authentic gothic

This relatively large piece of appealing jewellery has somewhat of an Afro-French feel

with poem titled 'Sensibility' to inscribed label verso

the earlier figurines usually made of ivory or alabaster

A Pretty Vintage Japanese Decorative Fish Skin Chest sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles or simply folk that yearnOrigin: Probably Japanese Period: Early Mid Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1930 40 Height: 11 inches Width: 25 inches Depth: 16 inches In the oriental taste, having a hinged lid, the buff coloured fish skin rectangular carcass, having a top and front polychrome painted with swallows frolicking amongst a blossoming tree, the tree motifs continuing to the flanks and rear, with central circular locking plate engraved with Japanese script