IDENTIFIERS
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id:	24150
accession number:	MAR.O.82 & A-1912

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 11 January 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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).
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/24150


SUBJECTS
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irises
flowers
streams
banks
irises
flowers
streams
banks



TECHNIQUES
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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
lacquering

CATEGORIES
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category: lacquer

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

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 3.6

dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 9.4

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 7.8