IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 16611 accession number: O.4-1969 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. title: box NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought from Bluett & Sons 1969, who bought it from London Gallery Ltd., Tokyo 1968 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bought with the Cunliffe Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/16611 SUBJECTS ------------------- bamboo pine prunus bamboo pine prunus CATEGORIES ------ category: lacquer DATING ------ creation date: 1700 - 1800 creation date earliest: 1700 creation date latest: 1800 culture: Choson Dynasty (1392 - 1910) culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 10.7 dimension: Length units: cm value: 66 dimension: Width units: cm value: 35.9 CITATIONS -------- Korean Art from the Gompertz and Other Collections in the Fitzwilliam Museum, A Complete Catalogue --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/O_4_1969.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 599 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_O_4_1969.jpg height: 634 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/O_4_1969.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 599 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_O_4_1969.jpg height: 317 pixels width: 250 pixels