Box, lacquer. Box with a seated lid (A) in the shape of two shallow intersecting rectangular boxes decorated in gold, black and silver-grey hiramakie (low relief sprinkled design) and takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design). One box is decorated with autumn grasses in gold and silver-grey on a black ground powdered with gold. The other box is decorated with daisies and other small flowering plants on a fundame (matt gold) ground with kirikane (metal foil cut to various shapes and individually set into a lacquer ground, often as a mosaic) details. Both designs overlap onto the sides of the box. The inside and the base are in nashiji (shimmering spangles).
C.B. Marlay bequest
Height: 0.8 cm
Length: 7.6 cm
Width: 5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Edo Period (1615-1868)#
Circa
1700
-
1868
Decoration
Lacquering : Box, lacquer, decorated in hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) and takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design), kirikane (metal foil cut to various shapes and individually set into lacquer ground), interior and base in nashiji
Accession number: MAR.O.86 & A-1912
Primary reference Number: 24171
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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