IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 24020 accession number: MAR.O.64 & A-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. 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/24020 SUBJECTS ------------------- ho-ho bird flowers foliage ho-ho bird flowers foliage TECHNIQUES ---------- box, lacquer with a silver metal mount, decorated with hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) and nashiji lacquering CATEGORIES ------ category: lacquer DATING ------ creation date: 1700 - 1868 creation date earliest: 1700 creation date latest: 1868 culture: Edo Period (1615-1868) CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 2.7 dimension: Length units: cm value: 8.2 dimension: Width units: cm value: 7