IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 23937 accession number: MAR.O.54 & A-C-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Lacquer box and smaller box. Box, lacquer. Rectangular box with an overhanging lid (A) of convex form with two cut-away sides, containing a smaller box (B) of the same shape. It is decorated all over with a white-crackled ground of inlaid eggshell and decorated on the lid in hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) and takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design) in gold, red and black with seven cranes in flight. The rim is finely edged in gold, red and black. The base and interior are in nashiji covered with a thick layer of red-brown lacquer. The smaller box is similarly decorated; the lid (C) has a gold and black rim. title: box LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: C. B. Marlay creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/23937 SUBJECTS ------------------- cranes flying cranes flying TECHNIQUES ---------- box, lacquer, decorated all over with a white-crackled ground of inlaid eggshell and decorated on the lid in hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) and takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design), the base and interior are in nashiji lacquering CATEGORIES ------ category: lacquer DATING ------ creation date: 1800 - 1868 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1868 culture: Edo Period (1615-1868) culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Sato Seizo DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 4.2 dimension: Length units: cm value: 6.4 dimension: Width units: cm value: 3.7 CITATIONS -------- The Index of Inro Artists ---