Japanese Tsugaru Nuri Lacquer Zataku Table - Taisho Era Material - Zinc Chests and boxes from India

Chests and boxes from India are found in an extraordinary variety of styles reflecting the many cultures that influenced India and were used for storing valuables such as textiles

Indian parindas really spice up an English garden and are great pot stands for planters

Supplied with a contemporary iron stand

lighting or decorative accessories

Japanese Tsugaru Nuri Lacquer Zataku Table - Taisho Era Material - Zinc Chests and boxes from IndiaThis Japanese zataku table (low table, ) is crafted in tsugaru nuri lacquer with inclusions of mother of pearl (raden) flakes. Zataku were known as communal dining tables which came to prominence in the Taish era (1912 1926). It would be a dramatic and functional coffee table. Tsugaru nuri lacquer technique mimics the beautiful depths and patterns on the seabed of Wakasa Bay. It is painstakingly intensive work involving hundreds of layers of lacquer,