IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 24225 accession number: MAR.O.93 & A-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Box, lacquer with coral, shell and green stone (possibly jade) inlay. Rectangular box with rounded corners and seated lid (A). The ground is partly gold and partly black, speckled with gold. The gold ground lid is decorated in takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design) and hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) of two birds, one in gold and silver, and the other inlaid in shell with pink wings, standing beside a stream which runs through undulating hills covered with grasses and other small plants. Two swallows fly around gilt and red pampas grass and a flowering/fruiting shrub (Chinese bellflower). The leaves are in two-tone gold and some are inlaid in shell and jade; some of the flowers are also inlaid in shell. A smaller plant in the foreground has inlaid pearl and coral buds and flowers. The black and gold ground of the lower half is decorated on the sides with a design of wheel segments in gold, silver and red lacquer; three wheels on the sides and one wheel at each end are shown floating in a stream. The interior and the base are nashiji (shimmering spangles). title: box LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: C. B. Marlay creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/24225 SUBJECTS ------------------- wheels birds swallows shrubs plants grasses pampas grass stream hills wheels birds swallows shrubs plants grasses pampas grass stream hills TECHNIQUES ---------- box, lacquer, decorated in takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design) and hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design), with shell, coral, pearl and jade inlay, base and interior are nashiji (shimmering spangles) lacquering CATEGORIES ------ category: lacquer DATING ------ creation date: 1700 - 1868 creation date earliest: 1700 creation date latest: 1868 culture: Edo Period (1615-1868)# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 6.7 dimension: Length units: cm value: 15.6 dimension: Width units: cm value: 11.9