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Maker: Unknown
Clothes box with bamboo, pine and prunus. Lacquer on wooden core, inlaid with mother of pearl. Choson Dynasty. This box which is covered with black-lacquered shark-skin and lined with paper, is completely enclosed by its cover, which reaches down to the base. The corners are protected by iron fittings. The reddish-brown lacquer is inlaid with mother of pearl. The top is divided into three zones, which are decorated, respectively, with a crane among bamboo, a bird's nest in a pine tree, and another crane flying above a prunus tree. The sides are inlaid with a composite flower-scroll. Where the lacquer is missing the underdrawing of the design in black ink is revealed on the wooden core.
History note: Bought from Bluett & Sons 1969, who bought it from London Gallery Ltd., Tokyo 1968
Bought with the Cunliffe Fund
Height: 10.7 cm
Length: 66.0 cm
Width: 35.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1969-05-29) by Bluett & Sons Ltd.
Choson Dynasty (1392 - 1910)
18th Century
1700
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1800
The box may have been used to hold official or ceremonial robes. Similar motifs frequently appear in Korean porcelain of the eighteenth century.
Lining
composed of
paper
Decoration
composed of
lacquer
mother-of-pearl
Cover Over Box
composed of
sharkskin
Accession number: O.4-1969
Primary reference Number: 16611
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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