IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 24084 accession number: MAR.O.72 & A-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 30 September 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- 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 --------- 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. Marlay Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/24084 TECHNIQUES ---------- 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 ------ category: lacquer DATING ------ creation date: 1700 - 1920 creation date earliest: 1700 creation date latest: 1920 culture: Edo Period (1615-1868)# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 4.8 dimension: Length units: cm value: 13.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 9.9