Japanese Maki-e Gold Lacquer Panel of Moon-Viewing Rabbits in Pampas Grass

A wide Japanese maki-e lacquer panel showing two white rabbits sitting among silver pampas grass under a large full autumn moon. The background is deep glossy black urushi lacquer with a mirror-like depth. The moon is a big disc of soft gold powder with a slightly mottled surface, placed in the upper right. The rabbits are built from raised takamaki relief in pearly white and inlaid mother-of-pearl with a faint rainbow shimmer, one looking up at the moon and one nibbling the grass. Long arching ...