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Description: | Large combs were used by Japanese women in the 19th century to secure their long hair in complex styles. Their hair ornaments were their jewellery, and were often very finely made. This comb is made from gold lacquer. It is decorated on one side with a red stone ojime (glass bead), and on the other with an ivory netsuke (toggle) showing a bird. Lacquer is a traditional Japanese material consisting of many layers of hardened tree sap, which is coloured and then highly polished. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | beyond the North East art other cultures date | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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