IDENTIFIERS
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id:	24084
accession number:	MAR.O.72 & A-1912

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 30 September 2019

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
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. Marlay Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/24084





TECHNIQUES
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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
lacquering

CATEGORIES
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category: lacquer

DATING
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creation date:	1700 - 1920
creation date earliest:	1700
creation date latest:	1920
culture:	Edo Period (1615-1868)#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 4.8

dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 13.5

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 9.9