IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 23958 accession number: MAR.O.56 & A-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 4 January 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Box, lacquer with silver metal ring handles. Rectangular box with an overhanging lid (A) with two cusped sides and covered on the exterior and base with a brown and gold mokume (lacquer imitating wood-grain) ground and decorated on the lid in hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) and takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design) in green, red, gold and grey. The cover is decorated with a gold grasshopper resting on a lily-type plant which has large green and gold veined leaves and three red and gold blooms. The two sides of the lid are cut away to expose two silver metal fittings on the lower section in the shape of a flower head and pierced with slender cord rings; the rim of the lid is raised and edged in grey. The interior is decorated with nashiji (shimmering spangles) and inside the lid is a gold flower spray. 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/23958 SUBJECTS ------------------- grasshopper lily flower sprays grasshopper lily flower sprays TECHNIQUES ---------- box, lacquer with silver metal ring handles, decorated with a brown and gold mokume (lacquer imitating wood-grain) ground and decorated on the lid in hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) and takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design) in green, red, gold and grey, the interior decorated with nashiji (shimmering spangles) lacquering CATEGORIES ------ category: lacquer DATING ------ creation date: 1700 - 1868 creation date earliest: 1700 creation date latest: 1868 culture: Edo Period (1615-1868)# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 1.6 dimension: Length units: cm value: 9.6 dimension: Width units: cm value: 3.7