Lacquer box, ko-bako for the incense ceremony. Box, lacquer with silver metal rims. Rectangular box with rounded corners and a seated lid (A). The black ground is decorated in gold and silver-grey takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design) and hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) with a winding stream; the banks either side, in gold kirikane (metal foil cut and individually set into a lacquer ground, often as a mosaic), are covered with clusters of iris with gold leaves and silver-grey flowers. A similar and continuous design of streams, banks and irises runs around the sides of the box. The interior and the base are in nashiji (shimmering spangles).
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Height: 3.6 cm
Length: 9.4 cm
Width: 7.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Edo Period (1615-1868)#
Circa
1700
-
1868
Rims
composed of
metal
( silver-coloured)
Decoration
Lacquering : Box, lacquer, with silver metal rims, black ground decorated in takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design) and hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design), and kirikane (metal foil cut and individually set into a lacquer ground), interior and base in nashiji
Accession number: MAR.O.82 & A-1912
Primary reference Number: 24150
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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