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.
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Height: 2.7 cm
Length: 8.2 cm
Width: 7.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Edo Period (1615-1868)#
Circa
1700
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1868
Decoration composed of metal ( silver-coloured) lacquer gold
Lacquering : Box, lacquer with a silver metal mount, decorated with hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) and nashiji
Accession number: MAR.O.64 & A-1912
Primary reference Number: 24020
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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