IDENTIFIERS
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id:	23933
accession number:	MAR.O.53 & A-1912

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 15 July 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Lacquer box, kogo (box for the incense ceremony). Box, lacquer. Rectangular box with rounded corners and an overhanging lid (A) with two cut-away sides. The gold ground is decorated in red and black in takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design) with a red table, the lower shelf bearing a vase holding one flower sprig and on the top of the table is a reclining black shishi, its head resting on its paws. The interior and the base are in gyobu nashiji (nashiji using large flakes of gold).
title:	box

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	C. B. Marlay
creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/23933


SUBJECTS
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table
vase
shishi
table
vase
shishi



TECHNIQUES
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box, lacquer, the gold ground is decorated in red and black in takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design), interior and base are in gyobu nashiji (using large flakes of gold)
lacquering

CATEGORIES
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category: lacquer

DATING
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creation date:	1615 - 1868
creation date earliest:	1615
creation date latest:	1868
culture:	Edo Period (1615-1868)#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 1.7

dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 6.4

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 5.4