IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 24258 accession number: MAR.O.168 & A-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 8 April 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Book rest, lacquer with silver metal mounts and handle. The book rest sits on a central upright attached to a rectangular base with a drawer (A) and is decorated in gold and silver. The nashiji (shimmering spangles) ground is decorated in takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design), hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) and heidatsu (cut sheet-gold or, as in this example, sheet-silver applied to a lacquer base) on the book rest with a prunus tree beside a stream with clouds overhead, and on the rectangular base with bamboo and prunus beside a stream. The edges are plain gold; the sides are decorated with formal flowers and scrolling foliage. The front of the drawer is similarly decorated and has a silver metal drop handle attached to three finely tooled flower heads. The central upright is decorated with scrolling flowers and fitted top and bottom with silver metal mounts which are finely tooled with scrolling foliage. The underside of the book rest, the interior of the drawer and the box are nashiji. The base is nashiji and there is a removable circular wooden plug crudely painted in gold, inserted in the centre of the base. title: book rest 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/24258 SUBJECTS ------------------- prunus bamboo flowers foliage stream clouds prunus bamboo flowers foliage stream clouds TECHNIQUES ---------- book rest, lacquer with silver metal mounts and handle, decorated in takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design), hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) and heidatsu (sheet-silver applied to lacquer base), interior of drawer and box, and base are nashiji (shimmering spangles) ground lacquering CATEGORIES ------ category: lacquer DATING ------ creation date: 1820 - 1820 creation date earliest: 1820 creation date latest: 1820 culture: Edo Period (1615-1868) culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 57 dimension: Length units: cm value: 44.4 dimension: Width units: cm value: 25.4