Box, lacquer. In the shape of a moth with outspread wings decorated in gold, black, red and brown. The seated lid (A) is decorated with two brown eyes with black pupils, a gold thorax, a gold abdomen and finely decorated wings. The wing markings are in gold and black hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) and kirikane (metal foil cut to various shapes and individually set into a lacquer ground, often as a mosaic) on a nashiji ground. The sides of the box are decorated with gold feathery foliage of hare's foot fern on a nashiji ground. The interior and the base are nashiji (shimmering spangles).
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Height: 1.4 cm
Length: 8.3 cm
Width: 3.9 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 kirikane (metal foil cut to various shapes and individually set into lacquer ground) on a nashiji ground, interior and base in nashiji
Accession number: MAR.O.85 & A-1912
Primary reference Number: 24162
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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