IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 24133 accession number: MAR.O.80 & A-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Box, lacquer. Box in the shape of a fan with a seated lid (A). The gold ground of the lid is decorated in black, red, gold and silver-grey takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design) with a flowering tree with red blooms, and plants with silver-grey petals and gold spiky leaves. The sides are decorated with a continuous landscape of hills, trees and a river on a gold ground. The inside of the lid is decorated in gold, black, silver-grey and green takamakie with five books on a nashiji (shimmering spangles) ground. One cover shows a gold bird perched on a flowering branch reserved on a grey ground, one has gold flower heads on a gold ground, one has gold chidori (birds) in flight over black and gold waves; only parts of the green and gold covers are visible. The lower section is decorated with three scrolls each in gold, one with maple leaves, one with diaper pattern and one with flying ducks on a nashiji ground. The base is 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. Maraly Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/24133 SUBJECTS ------------------- birds ducks plants trees flying hills river birds ducks plants trees flying hills river TECHNIQUES ---------- box, lacquer, decorated in takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design) and nashiji 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: 2.3 dimension: Length units: cm value: 11.1 dimension: Width units: cm value: 7.5