Pedestal for a tea bowl; previous owner: Hayashi Tadamasa; Paris; lacquer; mother-of-pearl; lacquered; black lacquer and mother-of-pearl inlays on wood; Total: Height: 8;4 cm; Diameter: 10;4 cm; Brand: Inside at the base: leaf fan; ?; lacquer work; geometric ornaments; Edo period; stylized chrysanthemum tendrils in mother-of-pearl meander over the black lacquer base of this pedestal for a tea bowl. Square fields in mother-of-pearl form a chessboard-like pattern on the base. On the inner edge of the foot are marks from the royal workshop of the former Ryukyu kingdom (now Okinawa; Japan): a leaf fan and the Sino-Japanese character for sky; ten ?. Since the 14th century; lacquers have been produced and lacquer goods from all over East Asia have been traded on the archipelago located between the East China Sea and the Pacific Ocean.