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Box: MAR.O.64 & A-1912

Object information

Current Location: Gallery 34 (Fan Gallery)

Maker(s)

Unknown

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Description

Box, lacquer with a silver metal mount. Box in the shape of a referee's fan with a seated lid (A). The black ground has gold speckles and is decorated in gold and silver-grey hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) with a ho-ho bird beside a branch of trailing pawlonia. The lid is divided by a central line of silver metal and there is a gold Greek-key pattern design reserved on either side of the central line at each end. The sides are decorated in gold and silver-grey with flower heads on a greeny ground powdered with gold. The inside and the base are nashiji.

Legal notes

C.B. Marlay Bequest

Measurements and weight

Height: 2.7 cm
Length: 8.2 cm
Width: 7.0 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley

Dating

Edo Period (1615-1868)#
Circa 1700 - 1868

Components of the work

Decoration composed of metal ( silver-coloured) lacquer gold

Techniques used in production

Lacquering : Box, lacquer with a silver metal mount, decorated with hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) and nashiji

Identification numbers

Accession number: MAR.O.64 & A-1912
Primary reference Number: 24020
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 30 September 2019 Last processed: Thursday 3 August 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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