Box, wood and lacquer applied with mother of pearl and gut/twine. Box in the shape of a biwa. The lower section is of black lacquer polished to a deep gloss (roiro) with a gold edge. The neck has five frets; the four gut/twine strings are fastened to four tapered wooden pegs which are waisted at the outer end and lodged in the holes on the neck. The peg-board at the end of the neck is applied with gold. The cover (A) has four strings and is applied with two mother of pearl discs, one of a sun and one of a moon. The underside is decorated in low-relief with a bird in flight, in gold with a red crest, on a black roiro ground.
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Height: 3.3 cm
Length: 14.9 cm
Width: 6.2 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 (Japanese period, 1615-1868)
Circa
1700
-
1868
Decoration composed of lacquer mother-of-pearl twine gold Box composed of wood (plant material) Cover Lower Section
Lacquering : Wood and lacquer applied with mother of pearl and gut/twine, the lower section is polished to a deep gloss (roiro), the underside of the cover is decorated in low-relief
Accession number: MAR.O.60 & A-1912
Primary reference Number: 23982
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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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