A Japanese black lacquer Buddhist altar (Butsudan), having double hinged doors opening to reveal gilt lacquered interior with further double hinged lattice doors below a chrystanthemum carved frieze opening to reveal a tripartite architectural interior above four small drawers, a further long drawer on a base with sliding cupboard doors, height 149 cm, width 64 cm, depth 54 cm. Provenance: Shapiro Auctions, Sydney