Lacquer box, tea jar. Box, lacquer. Cylindrical box with seated lid (A) decorated in hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) in black, gold, silver and red lacquer with three men working in the paddy fields, two picking rice and one walking along the road bearing a yoke with rice in the paniers, against a black sky. The design of paths and paddy fields continues round the sides of the box and onto the lower section. The mikayeshi (inside of the lid) and interior of the box are decorated with gold chidori (plovers) in flight on a nashiji (shimmering spangles) ground. The circular, flat, recessed base is in nashiji.
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Height: 5.1 cm
Width: 8.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Edo Period (1615-1868)#
Circa
1800
-
1868
Shunzo (alternative reading: Harmasa; both read the same)
Decoration
Lacquering : Box, lacquer, decorated in hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) and nashiji
Accession number: MAR.O.96 & A-1912
Primary reference Number: 24236
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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