£40,000 sleeper is Edo export survivor

Unusually for an Asian art sale, the top price at Sworders' latest offering in in Stansted Mountfitchet was paid for a Japanese work of art.

A 12in (30cm) casket – one of two lacquer boxes in a lot estimated at just £200-300 – was identifi…

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