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Description: | Artist: Zeshin - 1807-1891, Japan; Date(s): circa 1800 - 1900; Classification(s): inro, inro; Acquisition: bequeathed by Marlay, Charles Brinsley, 1912, C.B. Marlay Bequest [MAR.O.8 & A-1912]
Description: Inro, lacquer and silver metal overlay. A one case inro, two divisios, of standard shape. The brown lacquer ground is decorated in black and gold and silver hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) and takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design) with, on one side, an eboshi (nobleman's hat) resting on a tasselled black lacquer piece of furniture with a branch of flowering plum which extends to the reverse. The flowers are overlaid in silver metal. The riser and compartment are black lacquer with silver-grey shoulders. | 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: | Zeshin inro | Temporal: | name=Edo (Japanese period, 1615-1868); start=1800; end=1900 | 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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