Box, lacquer. Circular box with a seated lid (A), the black ground is speckled with gold and decorated in brown, black, silver and gold togidashi (the hiramakie design is covered completely with lacquer and polished until the design reappears flush with the ground) with a group of five puppies seated on grassy ground. The puppies` features, their paws and fur are finely depicted. The grooved outer rims of the lid and lower section are decorated with fundame (matt gold)and the sides with ferns and kirikane (metal foil cut to various shapes and individually set with a lacquer ground, often as a mosaic) on a black ground speckled with gold. The interior and the base are in nashiji (shimmering spangles).
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Diameter: 9.7 cm
Height: 2.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Edo Period (1615-1868)#
Circa
1700
-
1868
Decoration
Lacquering : Box, lacquer, black ground decorated in togidashi (the hiramakie design is covered completely with lacquer and polished until the design reappears flush with the ground), lid and lower sections decorated with fundame (matt gold) and kirikane (metal foil cut to various shapes and individually set into lacquer ground), interior and base are in nashiji
Inscription present: rectangular label with a border of three blue lines inscribed beside the No. '197' in faded black ink, at the bottom of the label and written upside down in pencil is 'A\\'f'
Accession number: MAR.O.87 & A-1912
Primary reference Number: 24177
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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