IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 23998 accession number: MAR.O.61 & A-D-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 4 January 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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). title: box 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/23998 SUBJECTS ------------------- peonies pine branches prunus bamboo flower heads rocks clouds peonies pine branches prunus bamboo flower heads rocks clouds TECHNIQUES ---------- 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 lacquering CATEGORIES ------ category: lacquer DATING ------ creation date: 1840 - 1840 creation date earliest: 1840 creation date latest: 1840 culture: Edo Period (1615-1868)# culture: 19th Century, Mid# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown