Tale' of Genji....lacquer set hand painted....

[Bibitte2]

Good morning,
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I got à superb set from an Estate sale last week.....
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The set is composed of 9 trays of 6 hand painted shells
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A box with cards that explain's each shells is also included in the set
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The owner payed more than 2000.00 for the set in the 1980 era...

Any help would be appreciated....

[talesofthesevenseas]

Wonderful! I will be interested to hear what the current value is. Some things have gone up and others down with the changes in the economy. We had someone with a set who posted about a year ago here:

http://www.antique-shop.com/forums/index.php?topic=11151.0

[mart]

Is this the same one that was posted a couple of weeks ago ??

[Ipcress]

The artist had a few items go through Mainichi Autions a few weeks ago and not one sold, some cheap estimates too.

Not sure there's much of a market for this style of Oriental work of art.