Box, lacquer. Elongated rectangular box with deep sides and a seated lid (A). The lid is decorated in black and gold hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) and takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design) with landscapes including young pine trees, plants and rocks on a nashiji (shimmering spangles) ground. The sides are decorated in similar techniques with similar landscape designs of young pine trees, plants and rocks beneath clouds in kirikane (metal foil cut to various shapes and individually set into a lacquer ground, often as a mosaic). The inside and the base are in nashiji.
C.B. Maraly Bequest
Height: 4.6 cm
Length: 10.1 cm
Width: 4.0 cm
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Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Edo (Japanese period, 1615-1868)
Circa
1700
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1868
Decoration composed of lacquer foil gold
Lacquering : Box, lacquer, lid and sides decorated in takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design) and hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) on a nashiji ground, sides decorated in kirikane (metal foil cut to various shapes and individually set into lacquer ground, often as mosaic)
Accession number: MAR.O.66 & A-1912
Primary reference Number: 24043
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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