IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 24112 accession number: MAR.O.76 & A & B-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Box, Lacquer. Rectangular box with a seated lid (A) and tray (B). The black ground is decorated in gold hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) and hirame (flat flakes of gold) with a landscape scene of pine trees beside a river and a waterfall with rocky banks and hills in the distance. The old gnarled trunk of the pine tree has uchikomi details (design details, particularly hollows in trees and rocks filled with gold particles); there are aogai (small pieces of inlaid blue/green shell) details to the water and the banks are in gold kirikane (metal foil cut and individually set into a lacquer ground, often as a mosaic). A similar and continuous design of pine trees and rocks beside a river runs around the four sides of the box. The tray stands on four bracket feet and is similarly decorated with pine trees and rocks beside a river with aogai details. The base of the tray, interior and base of the box are in gyobu-nashiji (shimmering spangles using large flakes of gold) producing a mirror-like effect. 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/24112 SUBJECTS ------------------- trees pine rocks river waterfall banks hills trees pine rocks river waterfall banks hills TECHNIQUES ---------- box, lacquer decorated in hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design), hirame (flat flakes of gold), uchikomi (design details filled with gold particles), aogai (small pieces of inlaid blue-green shell), kirikane (metal foil cut and individually set into lacquer ground) and gyobu nashiji (shimmering spangles using large flakes of gold) lacquering CATEGORIES ------ category: lacquer DATING ------ creation date: 1700 - 1868 creation date earliest: 1700 creation date latest: 1868 culture: Edo Period (1615-1868)# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 4 dimension: Length units: cm value: 7.7 dimension: Width units: cm value: 6.5