IDENTIFIERS
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id:	23937
accession number:	MAR.O.54 & A-C-1912

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 4 January 2017

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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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
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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/23937


SUBJECTS
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cranes
flying
cranes
flying



TECHNIQUES
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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
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category: lacquer

DATING
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creation date:	1800 - 1868
creation date earliest:	1800
creation date latest:	1868
culture:	Edo Period (1615-1868)#
culture:	19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Sato Seizo

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 4.2

dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 6.4

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 3.7



CITATIONS
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The Index of Inro Artists
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