IDENTIFIERS
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id:	22186
accession number:	MAR.O.11 & A-1912

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 17 July 2015

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Lacquer inro. A four case inro with five divisions, of standard shape. The kinji (a shiny gold lacquer seen in later 19th and 20th century pieces) is decorated in red, black, blue, brown and aogai (small pieces of blue-green inlaid shell) hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design), nashiji (shimmering spangles) and togidashi (hiramakie design covered with lacquer and polished until the design reappears flush with the ground). With, on one side, Samurai armour, an aoi (Tokugawa family) mon on the breast plate, a helmet, mask and gauntlets, and on the reverse, with a saddle, bit, harness and stirrups. 
The compartments are black lacquer and the outer wall of the risers, rims and shoulders are fundame (matt gold).
With a cloisonne ojime

Inro entirely redecorated about 1900.
title:	inro

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	C. B. Marlay
creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/22186





TECHNIQUES
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nashiji
TECHNIQUES
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hiramakie
TECHNIQUES
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kinji
TECHNIQUES
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togidashi
TECHNIQUES
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fundame
TECHNIQUES
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inlay
TECHNIQUES
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lacquering

CATEGORIES
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category: inro

DATING
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creation date:	1615 - 1868
creation date earliest:	1615
creation date latest:	1868
culture:	Edo Period (1615-1868)#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 2.6

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 7.7

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 6.7