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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1700 - 1868; Classification(s): lacquer, box, lacquering, box, lacquer, lid and sides decorated in takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design) and hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) on a nashiji ground, sides decorated in kirikane (metal foil cut to various shapes and individually set into lacquer ground, often as mosaic); Acquisition: bequeathed by Marlay, Charles Brinsley, 1912, C.B. Maraly Bequest [MAR.O.66 & A-1912]
Description: Box, lacquer. Elongated rectangular box with deep sides and a seated lid (A). The lid is decorated in black and gold hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) and takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design) with landscapes including young pine trees, plants and rocks on a nashiji (shimmering spangles) ground. The sides are decorated in similar techniques with similar landscape designs of young pine trees, plants and rocks beneath clouds in kirikane (metal foil cut to various shapes and individually set into a lacquer ground, often as a mosaic). The inside and the base are in nashiji. | 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: | Unknown lacquer box | Temporal: | name=Edo (Japanese period, 1615-1868); start=1700; 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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