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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): 1615 - 1868; Classification(s): netsuke, inro; Acquisition: bequeathed by Marlay, Charles Brinsley, 1912, C.B. Marlay Bequest [MAR.O.12 & A & B-1912]
Description: Inro, wood and lacquer. A three case inro, four divisions, of standard rectangular shape. The natural wood ground is decorated in gold and red takamakie (high relief sprinkled design) and hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) with branches, leaves and hozuki fruit. The leaves are applied with kirikane (metal foil cut to various shapes and individually set into a lacquer ground, often as a mosaic). The compartments and risers are black lacquer and the shoulders and rims are fundame (matt gold). | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | netsuke Unknown inro | Temporal: | name=Edo (Japanese period, 1615-1868); start=1615; end=1868 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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