IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 22186 accession number: MAR.O.11 & A-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 17 July 2015 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Lacquer inro. A four case inro with five divisions, of standard shape. The kinji (a shiny gold lacquer seen in later 19th and 20th century pieces) is decorated in red, black, blue, brown and aogai (small pieces of blue-green inlaid shell) hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design), nashiji (shimmering spangles) and togidashi (hiramakie design covered with lacquer and polished until the design reappears flush with the ground). With, on one side, Samurai armour, an aoi (Tokugawa family) mon on the breast plate, a helmet, mask and gauntlets, and on the reverse, with a saddle, bit, harness and stirrups. The compartments are black lacquer and the outer wall of the risers, rims and shoulders are fundame (matt gold). With a cloisonne ojime Inro entirely redecorated about 1900. title: inro LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: C. B. Marlay creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/22186 TECHNIQUES ---------- nashiji TECHNIQUES ---------- hiramakie TECHNIQUES ---------- kinji TECHNIQUES ---------- togidashi TECHNIQUES ---------- fundame TECHNIQUES ---------- inlay TECHNIQUES ---------- lacquering CATEGORIES ------ category: inro DATING ------ creation date: 1615 - 1868 creation date earliest: 1615 creation date latest: 1868 culture: Edo Period (1615-1868)# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 2.6 dimension: Height units: cm value: 7.7 dimension: Width units: cm value: 6.7