IDENTIFIERS
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id:	24043
accession number:	MAR.O.66 & A-1912

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 11 January 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
title:	box

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	C. B. Marlay
creditline: C.B. Maraly Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/24043


SUBJECTS
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pine
plants
rocks
clouds
pine
plants
rocks
clouds



TECHNIQUES
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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)
lacquering

CATEGORIES
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category: lacquer

DATING
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creation date:	1700 - 1868
creation date earliest:	1700
creation date latest:	1868
culture:	Edo (Japanese period, 1615-1868)

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 4.6

dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 10.1

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 4