Box, lacquer with silver metal ring handles. Rectangular box with an overhanging lid (A) with two cusped sides and covered on the exterior and base with a brown and gold mokume (lacquer imitating wood-grain) ground and decorated on the lid in hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) and takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design) in green, red, gold and grey. The cover is decorated with a gold grasshopper resting on a lily-type plant which has large green and gold veined leaves and three red and gold blooms. The two sides of the lid are cut away to expose two silver metal fittings on the lower section in the shape of a flower head and pierced with slender cord rings; the rim of the lid is raised and edged in grey. The interior is decorated with nashiji (shimmering spangles) and inside the lid is a gold flower spray.
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Height: 1.6 cm
Length: 9.6 cm
Width: 3.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Edo Period (1615-1868)#
Circa
1700
-
1868
Handles
composed of
metal
( silver-coloured)
Decoration
composed of
lacquer
Lacquering : Box, lacquer with silver metal ring handles, decorated with a brown and gold mokume (lacquer imitating wood-grain) ground and decorated on the lid in hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) and takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design) in green, red, gold and grey, the interior decorated with nashiji (shimmering spangles)
Accession number: MAR.O.56 & A-1912
Primary reference Number: 23958
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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