IDENTIFIERS
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id:	23944
accession number:	MAR.O.55 & A-1912

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 4 January 2017

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Box, lacquer. Shallow rectangular box with rounded corners and an overhanging lid (A) with two cusped sides. The exterior of the box has a black ground with brown streaks and the lid is decorated in gold and silver with traces of brown and red, with pine and prunus branches in hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design). The interior and the base are decorated with nashiji (shimmering spangles).
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:	http://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/23944


SUBJECTS
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pine
prunus
pine
prunus



TECHNIQUES
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box, lacquer, exterior and lid decorated in hiramakie, the interior and the base decorated with nashiji (shimmering spangles)
lacquering

CATEGORIES
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category: lacquer

DATING
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creation date:	1800 - 1868
creation date earliest:	1800
creation date latest:	1868
culture:	Edo (Japanese period, 1615-1868)
culture:	19th century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 1.5

dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 6.8

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 4.7