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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1800 - 1868; Classification(s): lacquer, box, lacquering, box, lacquered wood and tray with aogai (small pieces of blue-green inlaid shell) and gold foil inlay, roiro (black lacquer polished to a deep gloss) and kirikane (metal foil cut to various shapes and individually set into a lacquer ground often as a mosaic); wooden box, inscribed in black ink, has a yellow ochre silk ribbon tie; Acquisition: bequeathed by Raphael, Oscar C., 1947 [O.9 & A-L-1947]
Description: Lacquer box, incense box and wooden box. Box, lacquered wood with aogai (small pieces of blue-green inlaid shell) and gold foil inlay. Square box with a wavy rim of eight points and an overhanging lid (A), the sides of which are cut away to form eight ruyi lappets. Inside is a tray (B) containing a circular box (C) and cover (D) surrounded by four shaped boxes (E, F, G, H) and covers (I, J, K, L). The roiro (black lacquer polished to a deep gloss) ground of the lid is inlaid with aogai and kirikane (metal foil cut to various shapes and individually set into a lacquer ground often as a mosaic) and decorated with two cranes beside bamboo and a pine tree. Each side is decorated in aogai and kirikane with a panel of aoi (Japanese name for malvaceous plant, of the mallow family) crests and scrolling foliage reserved on a diaper pattern ground beneath a circle and star pattern border. The rims are edged in gold and the inside is red lacquer. Each side of the lower section is decorated with a quatrefoil panel containing, alternately, peony, daisies and buddliah, camellia and chrysanthemum in aogai on a roiro ground reserved on a diaper pattern in aogai and kirikane. The base is roiro and the inside red lacquer with gold rims.
The wavy rim of the tray has eight points and is decorated with a diaper pattern border in aogai and kirikane, the sides are roiro and the inside red lacquer with two circular holes in the base. The small circular box is inlaid with aoi crests in aogai on a roiro ground within an aogai border and decorated with honeycomb pattern round the sides. The base is roiro and the inside red lacquer with gold rims. The four `segment' boxes are each decorated in aogai with a similar aoi crest design within a circular border on a roiro ground. The remainder of the lid and sides are decorated with various diaper patterns inlaid in aogai and kirikane. The bases are roiro and the insides red lacquer with gold rims.
The wooden box has a yellow ochre silk ribbon tie and the inscription on the lid in black ink reads `aogai' (two characters), `kiara' (aloes wood) (two characters), and the final character is a variant on `bako' (box). Inside is a square of purple silk with white running stitch along three sides and a square of blue, brown and cream checked silk backed with blue cotton. | 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 Period (1615-1868); start=1800; 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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