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Wood and lacquer inro. A three case inro with four divisions, of standard rectangular shape. The natural wood ground is decorated in gold and red takamakie (high relief sprinkled design) and hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) with branches, leaves and hozuki fruit. The leaves are applied with kirikane (metal foil cut to various shapes and individually set into a lacquer ground, often as a mosaic).
The compartments and risers are black lacquer and the shoulders and rims are fundame (matt gold).
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Height: 6.1 cm
Width: 6.0 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1912)
by
Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Edo Period (1615-1868)
Early 19th Century
1800
CE
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1850
CE
Rims, Shoulders composed of gold Leaves
Hiramakie Takamakie Lacquering
Accession number: MAR.O.12 & A & B-1912
Primary reference Number: 22179
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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/22179 Accessed: 2022-05-29 03:46:57
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