Box, lacquer. Rectangular box with a seated lid (A). The black ground is decorated on the lid and sides in gold, silver and aogai (small pieces of blue-green inlaid shell) in hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) with circular medallions filled with flowers and foliage reserved on a gold meander ground. The interior of the lid, the lower section and the base are all similarly decorated in gold and silver with phoenix, flowers and butterflies in a stencil-type design on a nashiji (shimmering spangles) ground.
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Height: 2.5 cm
Length: 9.3 cm
Width: 7.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Edo Period (1615-1868)#
Circa
1700
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1868
Decoration composed of lacquer shell (animal material) gold silver
Lacquering : Box, lacquer, with aogai (small pieces of blue-green inlaid shell), in hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design), lid in nashiji (shimmering spangles)
Inscription present: rectangular brown luggage label with ribbon tie
Accession number: MAR.O.63 & A-1912
Primary reference Number: 24018
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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