Box, lacquer with silver metal rim mounts. Rectangular box with a seated lid (A). The polished brown ground is decorated on the lid and sides in gold, silver-grey, black and aogai (small pieces of blue-green inlaid shell) in hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) with open and closed fans. The open fans are decorated in various techniques including kinji (shiny gold lacquer ground) and kirikane (metal foil cut to various shapes and individually set into a lacquer ground, often as a mosaic) and show bold patterns of prunus, autumn grasses, scale pattern, flying geese, peony and other designs. The inside and the base are nashiji.
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Height: 4.8 cm
Length: 13.5 cm
Width: 9.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Edo Period (1615-1868)#
Circa
1700
-
1920
Mounts
composed of
metal
( silver-coloured)
Inlay
composed of
shell (animal material)
Decoration
composed of
foil
Lacquering : Box, lacquer, with silver metal rim mounts, decorated with aogai (small pieces of blue-green inlaid shell) in hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design), open fans decorated by kinji (shiny gold lacquer ground) and kirikane (metal foil cut to various shapes and individually set into a lacquer ground, often as mosaic), inside and base are nashiji
Inscription present: rectangular white label with a triple line blue border, it is fixed over another white label with a red border, just visible
Accession number: MAR.O.72 & A-1912
Primary reference Number: 24084
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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