a four-legged sewing box made of black lacquer with mother-of-pearl inlays; the sewing box has a hinged lid and an inlaid, removable and multi-partitioned drawer underneath; underneath, a hole has been cut into the base, from which a red cloth bag for wool etc. hangs. A small, green-covered pin cushion is attached to a hinge on the drawer; the outside of the lid is richly decorated with mother-of-pearl inlays, some of the finest, and shows a large and a small ship (in snowfall???); on the inside in gold lacquer are the lines: "Der einzig theuren gewidmet von Ihrem unvergeßlichen, Japan 27 Novb 1820 Sievert"; the lacquer is damaged at the lower end and paper (newspaper?) inscribed in Japanese appears. Sievert Levsen (died in Wyk in 1822) is considered the "first traveller to Japan in the region"