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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1700 - 1868; Classification(s): lacquer, box, lacquering, box, lacquer, decorated in hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design), base in nashiji; Acquisition: bequeathed by Marlay, Charles Brinsley, 1912, C.B. Marlay Bequest [MAR.O.73 & A-1912]
Description: Box, lacquer. Rectangular box with slightly bowed sides and a seated lid (A), decorated in brown, gold, blue, green, silver and grey. The brown ground of varying density is decorated in hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) with a bee with shimmering gold wings and a grey body hovering above a convolvulous plant with blue-green and gold leaves, and silvery grey flowers tinged with gold and a bud. The leaves and stems trail down over the sides of the box. The interior has a plain silvery-gold dull finish with gold rims. The base is in nashiji (shimmering spangles). | 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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