IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 24124 accession number: MAR.O.78 & A-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Box, lacquer with mother of pearl. Box in the shape of an open book with a seated lid. The lid (A) has a black ground which is sprinkled with gold of varying density and decorated with an asymmetrically placed design of flowers, ferns and foliage in two-tone gold, silver-grey and aogai (small pieces of blue-green inlaid shell) in hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) and surrounded by a diaper-pattern border in gold and aogai. On the sides is a continuous diaper pattern, two sides of coin design with a rough finish in gold, silver and aogai, and two sides in lozenge and square design in gold and aogai. The inside of the box and lid are similarly decorated in togidashi (makie design covered with lacquer and polished until the design reappears flush with the ground) with scattered flower heads in gold, black and aogai on a nashiji (shimmering spangles) ground. The base is in nashiji. 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/24124 SUBJECTS ------------------- flowers ferns foliage flowers ferns foliage TECHNIQUES ---------- lacquer, with mother of pearl, decorated with aogai (small pieces of blue-green inlaid shell) in hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design), interior of box decorated in togidashi (makie design covered with lacquer and polished until the design reappears flush with the ground) and aogai on a nashiji ground, base is in nashiji 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: 2.3 dimension: Length units: cm value: 9 dimension: Width units: cm value: 8.4