IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 24036 accession number: MAR.O.65 & A-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Box, lacquer. Rectangular box with a seated lid (A). The lid and sides are decorated in a dull gold and silver-grey ground in takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design) and hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) with a bird perched on a japonica branch; the flowers and fruit are in red lacquer with gold details. There are six paw prints under the tree; the black ground of the paw prints is highlighted with grey and gold nashiji (shimmering spangles ). The interior is in dense nashiji, with a clump of iris and bamboo in the bottom left corner of the lid. The black base is decorated with coarse 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. Maralay Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/24036 SUBJECTS ------------------- bird japonica iris bamboo flowers bird japonica iris bamboo flowers TECHNIQUES ---------- box, lacquer, lid and sides decorated in takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design) and hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design), interior is in dense 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: 2.1 dimension: Length units: cm value: 9.2 dimension: Width units: cm value: 7