Lacquer box, ryoshibako (box for writing paper) and wooden stand. Box, lacquer, accompanied by wooden stand. Rectangular box with rounded corners and a seated lid (A) decorated in gold, silver and black in takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design), hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design), uchikomi (design details, the hollows in the rocks filled with gold particles), and okibirame (flakes of gold positioned using a wooden skewer) on a red-brown nashiji (shimmering spangles) ground with fundame (matt) gold rims. The outside of the lid is decorated with branches of flowering peonies, pine branches, rocks (with hollows) and a stream; the underside of the lid depicts `The Three Friends', branches of pine, prunus and bamboo, with rocks, clouds and scattered flower heads. The sides are each decorated with branches of flowering peony emerging from rocks. The interior and the base are nashiji. The floor of the lower half has a removable mat of green velvet lined and bound with silk (B).
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Edo Period (1615-1868)#
19th Century, Mid#
Production date:
circa
AD 1840
Decoration
composed of
lacquer
gold
Mats
composed of
silk (textile)
velvet
Box
Height 19.4 cm
Length 46.2 cm
Width 35.0 cm
Stand
Height 7.3 cm
Length 44.2 cm
Width 3.3 cm
Lacquering : Box, lacquer, accompanied by a wooden stand, decorated in takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design), hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design), uchikomi (design details, filled with gold particles), and okibirame (flakes of gold positioned using a wooden skewer) on a red-brown nashiji (shimmering spangles) ground with fundame (matt) gold rims
Inscription present: rectangular cream sticky label with two line border
Accession number: MAR.O.61 & A-D-1912
Primary reference Number: 23998
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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