Box for Personal Accessories (Tebako) with Shells and Seaweed Design
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Boxes of this shape were used as early as the twelfth century to hold personal accessories such as combs. From the seventeenth century onward, groups of such boxes were part of the extensive sets of lacquered furnishings found in the trousseaus of the elite and of the expanding merchant class.
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