IDENTIFIERS
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id:	24155
accession number:	MAR.O.83 & A-1912

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 11 January 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Lacquer box, ko-bako for the incense ceremony. Box, lacquer. Rectangular box with seated lid (A); the black ground is decorated in gold, silver-grey and red. The lid is decorated in hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) with a performing puppeteer watched by a man, a woman and a child. The man is carrying two laden baskets suspended from a yoke, and rests on his cane as he stops to watch the puppeteer. The woman points at the puppet show and the child, in a red and gold floral kimono, holds a chrysanthemum windmill. The sides are covered with a two-tone gold and black diaper pattern. The interior and the base are in nashiji (shimmering spangles).
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/24155

PEOPLE
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woman
child
man
puppeteer

SUBJECTS
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baskets
yoke
cane
watching
baskets
yoke
cane
watching



TECHNIQUES
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box, lacquer, lid decorated in hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design), interior and base in 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: 3.6

dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 8.1

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 5.8