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Although it is similar in form to the familiar Chinese examples made in the Canton area in the late 18th and early 19th century, both the style and the techniques of the decoration suggest that this set of boxes was manufactured in Japan, possibly in Nagasaki, as part of a private trade in export lacquer ware which flourished during the later Edo period.