Early 20th C Japanese Yosegi Kodansu

A small Japanese kodansu, or tabletop chest, dating from around the turn of the 20th century.

Made in warm-toned wood, with five drawers, simple brass pulls and little yosegi geometric marquetry motifs worked across the fronts. The central compartment would originally have had a pair of sliding panels, now absent, leaving it as rather useful open shelving.

There are plenty of knocks, scratches and marks from a century or so of use, but that's very much part of it. A tiny piece of furniture, essentially — and an unusually good place to keep all the things that don't otherwise have one.

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Condition: Good - wear consistent with age and use

Size: W 28cm × D 14cm × H 26.5cm