Lacquer box, ko-bako (box for the incense ceremony). Box, lacquer and mother of pearl. Rectangular box resting on four bracket feet with two tiers, a tray (B) and a seated lid (A). The black ground is speckled with gold and decorated in hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) and takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design) in gold, silver, red and black with a cock fight watched by nobles and ladies. The nobles are seated on a verandah looking down on the fighting cockerels which are surrounded by six ladies and a child with a willow tree behind. The tray with aogai details (small pieces of inlaid shell) rests on four bracket feet and depicts a man poling a boat towards a house on an island with hills behind. The fundame (matt gold) border is decorated with scrolling foliage. The sides of the box are decorated with diaper patterns in gold and black. The interior of the lid and tiers, the underside of the tray and bases are in nashiji (shimmering spangles).
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Height: 5.5 cm
Length: 9.3 cm
Width: 7.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Edo Period (1615-1868)#
Circa
1700
-
1868
Decoration composed of mother-of-pearl
Lacquering : Box, lacquer and mother of pearl, decorated in takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design) and hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design), tray with aogai details (small pieces of inlaid shell), interior of the lid and tiers, the underside of the tray and bases are in nashiji (shimmering spangles)
Accession number: MAR.O.95 & A & B-1912
Primary reference Number: 24233
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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