Japanese wood and lacquer inro with branches, leaves and hozuki fruit

An image of Netsuke. Inro. Katabori. Ojime. Unknown maker, Japan. Wood and lacquer inro. A three case inro with four divisions, of standard rectangular shape. The natural wood ground is decorated in gold and red takamakie (high relief sprinkled design) and hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) with branches, leaves and hozuki fruit. The leaves are applied with kirikane (metal foil cut to various shapes and individually set into a lacquer ground, often as a mosaic). The compartments and risers are black lacquer and the shoulders and rims are fundame (matt gold). Height 6.1 cm, width 6.0 cm, 1800-1850. Edo Period (1615-1868).

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Netsuke. Inro. Katabori. Ojime. Unknown maker, Japan. Wood and lacquer inro. A three case inro with four divisions, of standard rectangular shape. The natural wood ground is decorated in gold and red takamakie (high relief sprinkled design) and hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) with branches, leaves and hozuki fruit. The leaves are applied with kirikane (metal foil cut to various shapes and individually set into a lacquer ground, often as a mosaic). The compartments and risers are black lacquer and the shoulders and rims are fundame (matt gold). Height 6.1 cm, width 6.0 cm, 1800-1850. Edo Period (1615-1868).

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Accession Number: MAR.O.12 & A & B-1912
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 100
Camera: Canon EOS 5D
Photographer name: Image Library; Fitzwilliam Museum
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 907 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 556.76kB
Exposure time: 1/30
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1
Captured: 2000:01:09 22:11:07

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19th Century bead branches Edo Period foil fruits fundame gold hiramakie hozuki fruit inro Japanese katabori kirikane lacquer lacquered lacquering leaf leaves low relief matt gold metal foil netsuke Ojime relief takamakie wood

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