Box, lacquer. In the shape of two tsuba with a seated lid (A). The tsuba on the right is decorated in gold and red with black details in takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design) and hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) with a dragon, its mouth open and its tail lashing above its head. The tsuba on the left has a silver-grey ground speckled with gold. The interior and the base are in nashiji (shimmering spangles).
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Height: 3 cm
Length: 6.6 cm
Width: 4.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Edo Period (1615-1868)#
Circa
1700
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1868
Decoration
Lacquering : Box, lacquer, decorated in hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) and takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design), interior and base in nashiji
Accession number: MAR.O.84 & A-1912
Primary reference Number: 24157
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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