IDENTIFIERS
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id:	24020
accession number:	MAR.O.64 & A-1912

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 30 September 2019

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Box, lacquer with a silver metal mount.  Box in the shape of a referee's fan with a seated lid (A).  The black ground has gold speckles and is decorated in gold and silver-grey hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) with a ho-ho bird beside a branch of trailing pawlonia.  The lid is divided by a central line of silver metal and there is a gold Greek-key pattern design reserved on either side of the central line at each end.  The sides are decorated in gold and silver-grey with flower heads on a greeny ground powdered with gold.  The inside and the base are nashiji.
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/24020


SUBJECTS
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ho-ho bird
flowers
foliage
ho-ho bird
flowers
foliage



TECHNIQUES
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box, lacquer with a silver metal mount, decorated with hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) and nashiji
lacquering

CATEGORIES
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category: lacquer

DATING
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creation date:	1700 - 1868
creation date earliest:	1700
creation date latest:	1868
culture:	Edo Period (1615-1868)#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 2.7

dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 8.2

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 7.0